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ihis currency goes it long Wily toward 2 τε x Ἶ ς eH ; Tai Sie 5 ΠΠΠΠΠΜΤΤΤΡΣῚ
purchasing seme goods and: ser-
vices. A ride on the hus, subway or
elevated railway is 2th Pfennig, and
has been 2U Pf, since the Red Army
arrived, compared with DM 2.30in
West Berlin. A S-kiln sack of potii-
toes, of whieh there are plenty and
far which you dun't have to stand in
Ine, sets you back vnly 90 PL

But nol all the food) on sale is
simple. dirt-cheap and inferior.
There are also delicatessens on Karl
Liebknecht Strasse where better-
dressed men and women pitiently
wail to buy more expensive items
from East and West. Some of these
customers may be in the category of
Victims of Fascism, drawing in ex-
tra 1,750 Marks monthly. But not
all. Not ‘surprisingly. Djilas’s new
class is also estublished in the Ger-
man Democratic Republic.

somewhere in the black was han-
mering and drilling. Herr Schuh,
hovered, waiting for instruction,
and perhaps listening.

He and the rabbi have a Uriuy
ivlationship. On the one hand,
Schultz makes life easier. He's exe.
cially usetul fer driving through
Checkpoint Charlie, ta West Bertin
and its well-appointed Jewish com.
munity centic, with a minimum of
formalities. Schultz is unfailingly
obedient, respectful and
deferential.

On the minus side, it’s hard τὰ
shake him. He is, the rabbi says,
“straight: from central casting.”
Neumin has no doubt that beside,
driving him areund, Schultz's te
sponsihilities include sticking close
to his charge, keeping his eyes und
ears open and filing reports to go
with Frau Neumann's. “The wall

Berlin, im umtke sume Jews there.
he’s hat defensive ahour his choice.
Ne sighs ahout the tourists, most
af them guyinn, who show up it the
contre asking tor lectures on the real
Jewish community of Berlin, the.
une which used fo stretch from the
Alexanderplatz tu Cirunewald. the
one he With born inte. What can be
do? He's one of the I
Can he refuse? The
lltex, Re takes
around -- it's one
until next

IN ΔΑΝΟΤΉΡ AG mie day. 10
tobe W years cance the EN decide
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Be othe ΤΙΝῚ.

int wilnesacss.
Tefore he lee-
the goad people
: of his many jobs
But if ‘on When he retires.

¢ Jews of West Berlin.

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ἅν bur [8 7Ess

When Kabbr αν Neuman, a
dapper litte mim whats faving
some problems at his new job, heard
1, he retused to believe it. But when
be was assured that i was sa, he
Imade a vow.

vember 29, 617. Lalo that the

Palestinians doy t have aiyhts. Of
course they do. Wot this is too
much.”

On the day in question, however,
the rabhr won't be able to deliver
such a sermon to the people who
should fear it. beawuse he'll be in
the States, faking. ἃς seven-week
break fram lie duties.

The vow was made in Neuman’s
cambination tiving and dining-reom
in East Berlin, in a spanking new
binck of flats, a few days before
Yum Kippur. Frau Neuman -- no
relation -- Was preparing lunch in
the kitchen, and the red-haired Herr
Schultz was there with ber. ‘The flat,
Frau Neumann, Herr Sehultz and
the new Fiat in which Herr Schultz
drives the rabbi wherever he wants
to geare all provided by the authori-
ties, who, in the rabbi's words,
“have gone out of their wiy to pro-
vide me with the same as I'm accus-
tomed to at lone."

The same, and in some respects
probably more.

Home for Neuman until a few
months ago was Champaign, IIli-
nois. There he fad “a beautiful
modern building” for a temple. To-
day, home is the less brilliant side of
the Berlin Wall, for Neuman has
taken on the post of chief and only
rabbi in East Germany. In that cn-
pacity, he gets the same privileges as
an archbishop, which must surpass
thase of a rabhi in the American
Corn Belt.

On the other hand, precious few
people, no matter what privileges
they are offered, choose to move
from Illinois to Exst Germany, not
even for only ἃ year or (wo as Neu-
man said he has done.

He is and isn't a truil-blazer. An-
other American rabbi, Ernst Lorge,
also from Illinois, came to lead Rosh
Llashana and Yom. Kippur services
in Enst Berlin in 1985 and 1986.
Lorge is a German Jew who became
1 refugee in 1936. He came back
twice for o few weeks to help what
he called ‘a Jewish community in
danger.” :

Rabbi Lorge was quoted as siy-
ing, "It’s difficult being away from
friends and family in Chicago. My
kids don't like ital all, And T have to
sacrifice enjoying the true holiday
spirit." - τ

‘What the Jews of Eust Berlin real-
ly necded, Lorge suggested, was ἢ

+, German-spenking American rabbi
to live among thein for at least a
year, This is what Rabbi Isaac Nou-
man agteed to do,

How, he was usked ‘as Frav Neu-
maun dished out the meat and pota-
toes, did it happen?

“This wasn't orighwilly my iden,”

he answered. "It'was Gene Dubow

and Bert Gold at the American Jew-
Ish Committtee who had the idea of
bringing a rabbi here. Especially
Dubow -- he's head of the ΟΞ
* Community Services Departmeni. 1
heard about it and inquired. I met in

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Rabbi lsaac Neuman at the pulpit, Rykestrasse synagogue:

"Pm concerned with the living, not the dead.’

The rabbi goes east

After 22 years without a spiritual head, East Berlin's tiny Jewish
community now hasa new, although temporary, rabbi—lsaac
Neuman. The Post's Edward Grossman reports.

have a future in either of the two
Germanys.

In fact, Rabbi Neuman doesn’t
think Jews ought to reside with Ger-
mans.The reason for this surely has
to do with the fact that some of the
Germans murdered his parents, six
sisters and brother. Bul he points
out one thing. The Jews living in
West Germany today -- about
30,000 of whom, depending on whom
you ask, 6,000 or 12,000 are in West
Berlin - live in the Federal Republic
by choice, The Jews of the GDR, by
way of contrast, are, like their fel-
low citizens, pretly much trapped
until they're old. Ξ

February at the AJC with Dubow
and with Klaus Gysi, the GDR's
state secretary for church affairs,
and during the meeting | was of-
fered the job. Gysi was in Washing-
ton for a White House prayer
breakfast.

“| said I'd accept if 1 could main-
tain my functions and freedom. Gysi
said of course. 1 still had serious
doubts. So 1 proposed an explor-
alory visit at Pessnh. 1 came here,
and conducted a seder, and il was
fantastic. The most attractive part
was the young people under 40
who'd never been to ἢ seder before.
This was very interesting for me.
Without the youngsters, you sec, |
would fave felt that I was the keep-
er of the gates of the cemetery. And
this I'm not interested in being.” the
rabbi said, his English inflected by
the ‘Yiddish of his youth. -

“The most important thing for me
is not the cemeteries. They should
not be negtected. But I'm concerned
with the living, not the dead. We
mus( have somethiig to offer youn-
ger people. Such a simple thing as
cookics and tea at an Oneg

THERE AREN'T many Jews in
East Germany. The registered
members of the community in the
GDR, including the cities of Dres-
den, Thuringen, Halle/Salle, Karl-
Marx-Stadt, Leipzig, Magdeburg,
Mecklenburg and Berlin, come to
πὸ more than 300. There may be as
many as another 3,000 Jews and
half-Jews, oy in Berlin, unregis-
tered. Those no longer working can,
like other East Germans on pension

Shabbat.” and not ini possession of state se-
* erets, get an exit visa ond
RABBENEUMAN wasborin Poland, — the other side of the Wall. Youhave

survived Auschwilz, was hospltal-
ized and lived for five years in Aus-
tria, then maved in spite of his Zion-
‘ism to the U.S. He received his
ordination at Hebrew Union Col-
loge in ‘Cincinnati, the. training
grourid for Reform rabbis, and was,
in 1953-55, the principal of a Hebrew
school in Duluth, Minnesota, whete
one of his bar mitzva boys was Rab-
‘ert Zimmerman from nearby Hib-
bing. Later Neuman served ἢ con-
gregation in’ Panama. He returned
to the States and was in Alabama
and Jawa before Illinois. This rabbi
pets around, At liolidays such as’
amukka and Pessah he was in, the
“habit of Mying to U.S, Army bases
‘on various continents. τε
‘He was divorced 15: ycars ngo.
‘He's undergone open-heart surgery. -
He has.two sons of whom he's very-
proud, .and-he doesn’t think Jews-’

(o be old, and it speeds things up if
you have relatives on the other side
prepared to put up a certain mone-
tary consideration for your release,
or as it is.called, “resettlement,”

registered and unregistered Jews are
pensioners, Few of them have elect-
“ed to leave. This is possibly because
Ὁ man or woman can cling to youth-
ful ideals foreyer, possibly because
home is home, and possibly because

especially if your life -has alrea
— rack ἰοῦ interesting, ἀπιὸν
8. for the pensioners’. chil
and grandchildren, who are ih pi
_ Ple the new rabbl finds most inter-

of them, given the choice, would

are, Neuman bas cone te them; -

A large percentage of the GDR's -

after 65, it’s Hard to start over again, ᾿
- goal is

esting, they have little choice, Moat - im

probably bolt. Since they. are-st :
and seem tp-want ta isiow wi they :

“Recently,” he said, “the GDR
started focusing attention on Ger-
man heroes of the past. Today it’s
not only Marx and Engels, but also
Frederick the Great. This is a prob-
lem for young Jews. As ii result,
they too have been affected by the

-world-wide search for reots. Bul

they have no way to learn. The older
Jews who kept the synagogue going
didn't have any educational pro-
gramme. My coming here is a way to
revive things temporarily. Instead of
the community becoming extinct in
another five years, which would
happen without a rabbi, it may have
a chance for 10 or 20 years. That's
all, [wanted to show that it could be
done.”

And the motives of the regime?
Why is it going out of its way for

im?

“The authorities in Eastern Eu-
rope are letting up on the churches
and the Christian communities. It's
a kind of glasnost. The Jews are
considered in this context as another
religious group. Also, how would it
look if you had a prosperous, grow-
ing Jewish community in West Ber-
lin and West Germany, where the
fascists are supposed: to be, while
the one here was becoming
extinct?"

Don't the GDR’s economic needs
come into the picture? Hasn't the
GDR applied for Most Favoured
Nation status in the U.S.?

“Sure, the authorities have an eye
on the U.S., and maybe on Ameri-
can Jews. This isn't necessarily a bad
thing. You can say that this is to

- their credit. It's also true that the
- leaders of the government here were

always anti-fascists. There are some
sincere people in government whose
mmunism with a more tol-
erant, a human face. I'm not sure
“What the decisive factor was for
them, Maybe accepting me is some
kind of signal to Israel. But it's not
important to me-what their motives
are, I'll do.what I came todo.”

FRAU NEUMANN‘ was being atten-"
ὡς ive with second helpings. Societe

have cars,” the ταδὶ said. falling
into Hebrew. “But | don’t car."
His manner with Schultz is brisk,
even curt, and it's possible to feel
sorry for the dutiful, ever-present,
middle-aged German.

“What is that drilling?” Neuman
asked his guest.

He was assured that it could be
altogether innocent. It happens in
Israel, tou — people settling ino
new apartments.

“L don't like it,” said the rabbi,
going tu answer the phone. It was
one of his former congregants in the
Middle West, calling to wish him
well.

The rabbi took his medication.

Later, on the way to the East
Berlin Jewish community cestre,
Neuman complained about and paid
tribute to the people who had some-
how kept things going, and held ser-
vices since 1965, when the last rabbi
died. Neuman is having problens
with what he calls “the establish
ment, “the conservatives" and
“(he old-timers” of the community.
Nevertheless, he can praise them.
And he understands and forges
some of the concessions they made
and lip service they paid. and still

nay, in order (0 manage.
: Sohulte was taking us to the place
where German Jewry once had ils
most splendid seat, The,
on Oranienburget
Strasse, completed in 1866, piers
imposing ruin, gutted in Kris
nacht and holed by ὦ fs
The starlings Mutter in the rare
The Jewish community on
where 15 bureaucrats who are 1!
Jews are employed. τσ
dreary walkup next ee

Rabbi Newnes picked up παπαῖ
from the States and from vee
other countries of the Easier :
and then it was off to the U. lt
bassy, where he dismissed =
for ἃ few hours, telling himhe #7"
walk home. Schultz salut e
man uses the embassy bora ress
cape from his driver. t0' 7 ned
and to read the Jnternation®’ ΓΟΙΣ
Tribune. The other library pair
are GDR teenagers phot
Rolling Stone.

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and men sporting an earring :
seen in East Berlin, bul ποὶ ὃ
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Nor is it surprising that efforts
have been made, and scarce funds
diverted, to make downtown East
Berlin fess unattraclive. This district
drips with historieal, cultural and
mythological associations. The
Alexanderplatz itself would proba-
bly be the red-hot centre of all Ber-
lin aguin, if the city were, as they
say, united. That's what it was dur-
ing the famed Weimar Republic,
when Alfred Doblin, a Jew who be-
came a Catholic, named his novel
alter it.

Within mortar range of the Alex-
anderplatz are many of the monu-
mental left-overs of German pride --
the State Opera. the New Guard
House, the Arsenal. These piles
from the past accidentally escaped
pulverization in the air-raids.
‘They're black with dirt -- apparently
the municipality lacks the fortune
needed to sandblast them clean. But
they're open for business, recalling a
Prussian heritage which, as Rabbi
Neuman said, it has been decided is
not to be despised, and attracting
western tourists with valuta, hard
currency.

Having watched the goose-step at
the New Guard House, these tour-
ists can refresh themselves in a nice-
lyrestored old tavern near St.Nicho-
las's Church. Locals -- ladies of the
night excepted -- can't enter the ho-
tels where foreigners stay, but they
can and do enjoy such hang-outs.
This is what they are meant to do.
Though the beer is poor, the reno-
vated surroundings take the edge off
Incarceration.

EAST BERLIN, after all, is the show
case of the GDR. Like the capital-
leg Bod. it is celebrating the
anniversary this year.

The East Berlin authorities da the
best they can. So far as the budget,
the leylacyiated the system allow,

ave been made to spnuce uy
the facade, to mark the date with
cathusiasm, bring in the valuta and
| Seageees the locals that they don't
ve it so bad.

aur Berliners on this side of
Wall too, however, so they're
a to be sceptical, not to say cyni-
τ: The 1,197-foot TV tower with
ieee restaurant -- taller than
call iffel Tower -- is known unoffi-
of 0,5 Telasparagus. The founders
iM mmunism, whose statues stand

Marx-Engels-Platz, arc said to be
Waiting for their exit visas. And the
aborts outdoor display of pho-

igs memorializing events in
westrugele for peace and justice -- a
mament march in London is
‘pleted , but not the 1953 uprising in
Streets -- is ignored. :
The locals ar
Ig are a5 proud as they

_ Can be of their town. But being Ber-

aie pad cry τον what's what,
'Y appear and are

janresed. They move between the
La of ancient monuments and
*£g0-like Palace of the Repub-.
in a Saul Steinberg

East Berlin's Jewish community centre employs 15 bureaucrats -- none of them is Jewish.

cartoon come to life.

Taking Rosa Luxemburg Strasse,
one of the numerous streets re-
named after 1945 for Jewish Com-
munists, you soon wander into dis-
tricts tourists aren't brought to. No
facade here. Light bulbs in an un-
derground passage have been liber-
ated. The sidewalks are broken,

East Berlin, like West Berlin, is
enormous. There are miles of work-
ers’ estates built after the war on ἃ
lower standard than Rabbi Neu-
man's house, and block after block
of older buildings incredibly still
bearing traces of the war. The bullet
and shrapnel! scars haven’t yet been
attended to, but whole window-
panes are in place, and people live
here, The men are downstairs work-
ing on their Skodas. Overhead is the
sume sky, the same clouds as in
West Berlin. Can these be the same
Germans?

The GDR's standard of living is
higher than that of any other Enst-
ern Bloc country. ‘This is to be ex-
pected: the citizens of the GDR are
Germans, and Germans will work.
Yet it looks as though the system
which the Russians brought with
them, and to which there is no end
in sight, is able to keep even Ger-
mans a long way down. The East
German man in the street has true
social security. He'll never be fired,
never be jobless. This can’t be unim-
portant, especially for a German.
Despite that, he moves along, in this
era of glasnost and perestroika, as if
his future is behind him.

It's like a blight, this material and
spiritual environment, like a punish-
ment for the sins of the fathers and
grandfathers. The East German
government won't pay reparations
to Israel or to any Jews. It says that
it isn't the heir to the Third Reich.
But the people of the GDR, includ-
ing the members of the new class,
keep paying a very stiff penalty. It
doesn’t seem fair. It's a surprise,
and it’s not right, that at the corner
of Friedrich Strasse and the fabled
Unter den Linden, women born af-
ter Hitler took poison should have
to dig ditches.

THE DITCH-DIGGERS on the
other side of the Wall, on the other
side of Checkpoint Charlie where
the blonde policewoman holds your
passport up to the light as a joke, are
Turkish men. They started to be
brought in when the Wail was erect-
ed in 196! and the capitalists were
deprived of cheap labour from the
Communist side.” ;

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The Turks and Yugoslavs, howev-
er, do only West Berlin's dirtiest
jobs. The men laying bricks and
sawing planks at « building site on
the brilliant Kurfurstendamm, as
well as their apprentices, are bluff,
smiling, hardworking Germans. The
resemblances between West Berlin
and {srael go only so far. Among
other things, the Germans on the
right side of the Wall haven't given
up working with their hands.

West Berlin dazzles, It may be
nothing less than the best of the
West. It jumps, works and runs. The
Kurfurstendamm is where the inter-
national marathon, involving more
than 17,000 runners and scheduled
for the day after Yom Kippur,
would finish up. It’s the most bril-
liant avenue in a town which ap-
pears to be considerably more bril-
liant than Paris, London or New
York. Is this an-optical illusion? Jt
could be, seeing that West Berlin
also evokes a manned earth station
on the moon. The single tangible
piece of evidence of World War {I is
the shell of the Kaiser Wilhelm Me-
morial Church. The bookstores car-
ry everything.

West Berlin creates its own
wealth. It also gets subsidies from
the national government, which are
granted to make the comparison
with the other side doubly conclu-
sive. A state within the Federal Re-
public, it’s the biggest city of the
world’s No.1 exporting country. It's
almost as if it were trying to prove
that the heights of prosperity, mu-
sic, fashion, industry, science and
intellectual freedom can be scaled
with almost no Jews.

ONE JEW very much alive in West
Berlin, however, and enjoying him-
self these days, is Gad Beck. He
works at the Jewish community cen-
tre on Fasanenstrasse, off the Ku-
damm. This dignified, well-guard-
ed, luxurious building on the spot
where a synagogue stood until Kris-
iallnacht, was paid for by the West
Germans. A fancy archway from the
original edifice frames the severe
doorway of the present structure.
Beck, second iri command at the
centre, is very busy, and likes to give
the impression of being even more
harried than he is.

“You want to talk? Not here!
Let's get away from these phones!”
he cried in Hebrew.

We crossed the Ku-damm to a
lovely coffeehouse set in a marvel-
lous garden. Beck is known to the
management, has his regular table,

σας εἐλεῖν POP tat adres

(Rath)

banters in crackling German with
the waitress. The wine is excellent.

“You see,” he said, “Eust Ger-
many invited this rabbi because it’s
in terrible shape und they think the
Jews on this side have clout, eco-
nomic clout. There's still this myth
of the Jewish conspitacy. Of course
Jews in West Berlin don’t have pow-
er. All they have is maybe some
moral influence. But we don't tell
the East Germans this. They‘re in-
terested in credits, and aid, and sell-
ing to the West Berlin market. They
want to be in good odour with all
elements, including the Jewish com-
munity. Why not?

“So they invited Rabbi Neuman,
to show that they're not going to let
their own Jews die out. There's a
rabbinical sominary reopened in Bu-
dapest, but it would huve taken
years before they could get n gradu-
ale from there. Neuman was right
for them -- he was available, a Polish
Jew yet Reform, and not an Isracli.

“It didn’t start with Neuman. For
the last several years, you see, reli-
gion has been playing a larger role in
Eastern Europe. At the same time
as the Communists slurted opening
up to the Catholics, they also re-
laxed toward the Jews. Two years
ago, there was a plan to cut a road
through the Jewish cemetery in
Weissensee, in East Berlin. We got
wind of it, and the American Jews
raised a clamour. The East Germans
saw that this wouldn't do, especially
with the 750th anniversary coming.

“Galinski wrote to Honecker,"
said Beck, savouring his wine and
refering, respectively, to his boss at
the centre, Heinz (Haim) Galinski,
and the boss of East Germany,
Erich Honecker, “In response,
Honecker invited Galinski ‘over to
meet Gysi, who.I hear is -half-
Jewish. So Galinski went in his car.
Galinski and the mayor of West
Berlin, Eberhard Diepgen,. go
around in armoured cars. Gysi
promised Galinski that the cemetery
wouldn't be harmed. And it hasn't
been. Diepgen was insulted because
the East Germans went through Ga-
finski. You see, both sides use the
Jews. One thing led to another. The
cemetery led to the rabbi.” .

Born in Berlin, Beck lived
through the war underground. He
later spent years working for the
Histadrut and drinking the coffee at
Kassit. But neither the drinks nor
the conversation on Dizengoff com.

ares to the Ku-damm’s. While stat-
ing that Israel is his homeland, Beck
finds it more interesting in Wes,

-along the line, fur

Wizo chap
dren to the

nate millions of Dis yearly.”
παλάμας eae ra
8. have no future.
He ᾿ Rabin OWS Which must be
pt, Rabbi Neuman said in his SeT-
mon on the night of Yam Kippur.
are the ones made at Mount Sinii.

The tik he gave in German.
while the service was in Hebrew. AS
it was chanted by the cantor and the
other old-timers helping the mbbi at
the altar und the ark, this Hebrew
sounded like recordings from an ar-
chive. It echoed and draned. Hf the
archaie Ashkenivi accent: amused
an Isracli, the bingrage itsell wis
Greek for most of the approximate:
ty 200 people pathered in the un-
heated main hall of the Rykestiasse
synagogue.

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ly sunctuary with its sourmg rool and
enclosed chancel for five times that
number. Damaged tnt not ole.
stroyed in Arivtalfnrchi bevy
abutted on German bud
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for Storage and lately tae been re
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larger than usual for Kal Sidhe an
the last four ¢ :

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and the not-so-old. There ace at
quite a few men and wemen ants
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mixed bag. There were lew,
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it, beeanse he'll he in
the States, (ἀκίπμ α΄ seven-week
break trom his duties.

‘Lhe vow wis made in Newman's
combination living and dining-ruem
in East Berlin, ina spanking new

black of Mats, a few days before
Yom Kippur. Frau Neuman -- na
relation -- was preparing lunch in
the kitchen, and the red-haired Herr
Svhulta was there with her. ‘The flat,
Frau Neumann, Herr Schultz ind
the new Fiat in which Herr Schultz
drives the rabbi wherever he wants
τὸ go are all provided hy the authori-
fies, wha, in the rabbi's wards,
“have gone oul of their way to pro-
vide me with the same as I'm accus-
fomed to at home.”

The same, and in some respects
probably more.

Home for Neuman until a few
months ago was Champaign, Illi-
nois. There he had “a beautiful
modern building" for « temple. To-
day, home is the less brilliant side of
the Berlin Wall, for Neuman hus
taken on the post of chief and only
rubbi in East Germany. In that cu-
pacity, he gets the same privileges as
an archbishop, which must surpass
those of a rabbi in the American
Carn Belt.

On the other hand, precious few
people, no matter what privileges
they are offered, choose to move
from Illinois to Enst Germany, not
even for only ἢ year or two us Neu-
man said he has done.

tle is and isn’t a trail-blazer. An-
other American rabbi, Ernst Lorge,
also from Illinois, came to lead Rosh
Hashana and Yom. Kippur services
in East Berlin in 1985 and 1986,
Lorge is a German Jew who became
a refugee in 1936. Ele came back
ewice for a few weeks to help what
he called “a Jewish community in
danger." :

Rabbi Lorge was quoted as say-
ing, “It's difficult being away from
friends and family in Chicago. My
kids don’t like it at all. And (have ta
sucrifice enjoying the true holiday
spirit." Se, ἋΣ
. What the Jews of East Berlin real-
ly neuded, Lorge suggested, was a

lerman-spenking American rabbi
to live among them for at least ἢ
year. This is what Rabbi Isaac Neu-
man agreed to do, :

How, he was asked ‘as Frau Neu-
mann dished out the meat and pota-
toes, did it happen? :

“This wasn't originally my idea,”
he answered. “Tl was Gene Dubow
and Bert Gold at the American Jew-
ish Cummitttce who had the idea of
bringing a rabbi here. ‘Especially

_ Dubow'-- he’s head of the AJC's
Community Services Department. [
heard about it and inquired. 7 met in

as

Rubbi sane Newnan αἱ the pulpit, Rykestrasse synagogue: ἢ

2 a

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Pm concerned with the living, not the dead.’

The rabbi goes east

After 22 years without a spiritual head, East Berlin’s tiny Jewish
community now has anew, although temporary, rabbi—Isaac
Neuman.The Post's Edward Grossman reports.

February at the AJC wilh Dubow
and with Klaus Gysi, the GDR’s
State secretary for church affairs,
and during the meeting 1 was of-
fered the ἰοῦ. Gysi was in Washing-
ton for a White House prayer
breakfast.

“f said I'd accept if I could main-
tain my functions and freedom. Gysi
suid of course. 1 still had serious
doubts. So 1 proposed an explor-
atory visit at Pessah. | came here,
and conducted a seer, and it was
fantastic. The most attractive part
was the young people under 40
who'd never been to a seder before.
This was very interesting for me.
Withoul the youngsters, you see, |
would have felt that T was the keep-
er of the gatcs of the cemetery. And
this I'm not interested in being," the
tabbi said, his English inflected by
the ‘Yiddish of his youth.

“The mest important thing for me
is not the cemeteries. They should
not be neglected. But I'm concerned
with the living, not the dead. We
must have something to offer youn-
ger people. Such a simple thing as
cookies and’ ten at an Oneg
Shabbit.”

RABBINEUMAN was bani in Poland,
survived Auschwitz, was hospilal-
ized and lived for five years in Aus-
tria, then moved in spite of his Zion-
‘ism to the U.S. He received his
ordination at Hebrew Union Col-
lege in Cincinnati, the training
ground for Reform rabbis, and was,
in 1953-55, the principal of a Hebrew
school in Duluth, Minnesota, where
one of his bar mitzva boys was Rob-
‘ert Zimmerman from nearby’ Hib-
bing. Later‘Neuman served n con-
gregation in Panama. He returned
to the States and wns in Alabama
and Lowa before Ilinois. This rabbi
ae around. At holidays sucli as

lanukka and Pessah he was in the

habit of flying to U.S. Army bases -

on‘ various continents.

He ‘was divorced 15° years ago.

He's undergone open-heart surgery,

* He has two-sons οἵ whom he’s very

proud, and he doesn't think Jews

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‘ATG, Neuman hds‘cotng to them:
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have a future in cither of the two
Germanys.

In fact, Rabbi Neuman doesn’t
think Jews ought to reside with Ger-
mans. The reason for this surely has
to do with the fact that some of the
Germans murdered his parents, six
sisters and brother. But he points
out one thing. The Jews living in
West Germany today -- about
30,000 of whom, depending on whom
you ask, 6,000 or 12,000 are in West
Berlin -- live in the Federal Republic
by choice. The Jews of the GDR, by
way of contrast, are, like their fel-
low citizens, pretty much trapped
until they're old.

THERE AREN'T many Jews in
East Germany. The registered
members of the community in the
GDR, including the cities of Dres-
den, Thuringen, Halle/Salle, Kari-

- Marx-Stadt, Leipzig, Magdeburg,

Mecklenburg and.Berlin, come to
no more than 300. There may be as
Many as another 3,000 Jews and
half-Jews, bam in Berlin, unvegis-
tered. Those no longer working can,
like other Enst Germans on pension
and not in possession of state se-
crets, get an exit visa and move to
the other side of the Wall. You have
to be old, and it speeds things up if
you havo relatives on the other side
Prepared to put up ἃ certain mone-
tary consideration for your Telease,

or as it is called, “resettlement.” -

A large percentage of the GDR’s
registered and unregistered Jews are
peusioners. Few of them have elect-
ed to leave. This is possibly because-

+ 8 man Or woman can cling to youth-

ful ideals foreyer ibly by
home is home. and possibiy tease
after 65. it's hard to start over again
oo if yout life -has already
much too interesting. | :
As for the pen ra
and grandchildren, who are t -
ple thé new tabi finds plete
esting, they have little choice: Most

OF them, given {πὸ choice, would

probably bolt. Sines they are stuck,

and:seem to want to know who they

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pensioners’ children -

“Recently,” he said, “the GDR
started focusing attention on Ger-
man heroes of the past. Today it's
not only Marx and Engels, but alse
Frederick the Great. This is a prob-
lem for young Jews. As d result,
they too have been affected by the

-world-wide search for roots. Bul

they have no way to learn. The older
Jews who kept the synagogue going
didn’t have any educntional pro-
gramme, My coming here is a way to
revive things temporarily. {Instead of
the community becoming extinct in
another five years, which would
happen without a rabbi, il may have
a chance for 10 or 20 years. That's
all. [ wanted to show that it could be
done.”

And the motives of the regime?
peta is it going out of its way for

im

“The authorities in Eastern Eu-
Tope are letting up on the churches
and the Christian communities. It's
8 kind of glasnost. The Jews are
considered in this context as another
religious group. Also, how would it
look if you had a prosperous, grow-
ing Jewish community in West Ber-
lin and West Germany, where the

fascists are supposed: to be, while

the one here was

extinct?”

beat = Goes economic needs
8. into the picture? Hasn't the

GDR applied for Most Favoured

Nation status in the U.S.?

τ “Sure, the authorities have an eye

on the U.S.,.and maybe on Ameri-

can Jews. This isn't necessarily.a bad

thing. You can say that this is to

becoming

their credit. It's also true that the

leaders of the government here were
always anti-fascists, There are some
sincere Eeovle in government whose
goal is Communism with a more tol-
εἴδη, ἃ human face. I'm ot sure
what the decisive factor was for
them. Maybe accepting me is some
kind of signal to Istael. But it's not
intportant to me-what their motives
are. Tl do what I came to do."
FRAU NEUMANN was being atien-
ive with Second helpings. Seneca

somewhere in the black way ham
mering and drilling. ΠΟΤῚ Schuly
hevered, waiting for instruction,
and perhaps listening. :

He and the rabbi have a CUT
relationship. On the one hand
Schultz niakes life easier, He'sespe.
cially useful fer driving through
Cheekpoint Charlie, τὰν West Berlin
and ifs well-appointed Jewish com.
munity cenlre, with a minimum υἱ
formnalilies. Schultz is Unfailingly
obedient, respectful and
deferential.

On the minus side, it’s hard to
shake him. He is, the rabbi sys
“straight from central casting.”
an has no doubt that besides
iz him around, Schult’s te.
sponsibilities include sticking close
to his charge, keeping his eyes and
ears open and filing reports to go
with Frau Neumann's. “The walls
have ears,” the rabbi sitid, falling

. into Hebrew. ‘But 1 don't cate.”

His manner with Schultz is brisk.
even curl, and it's possible to feet
surry for the dutiful, ever-presem,
middle-aged German.

“What is that drilling?" Neuman
asked his guest.

He was assured that it could be
altogether innocent. It happens in
Israel, too -- people settling into
new apartments.

“TL don’t like it,” said the rabbi,
going to answer the phone. Π was
one of his former congregantsin the
Middle West, calling to. wish hin
weil,

The rabbi took his medication.

Later, on the way to the Eat
Berlin Jewish community centre,
Neuman complained about and paid
tribute to the people who had some-
how kept things going, and held st-
vices since 1965, when the last τὶ
died. Neuman is having problems
with what he calls “the establish:
ment”, “the conservatives” and
“the old-timers” of the communily.
Nevertheless, he can praise them.
And he understands and forgives
some of the concessions they mad
and lip service they paid, and sill
pay, in order to manage.

Schultz was taking us to the place
where German Jewry once had its
most splendid seat. The so
New Synagogue on Oranienburget
Strasse, completed in 1866, a
imposing ruin, gulted in oer
nacht and holed by Allied bows
The starlings flutter in the πεῖ,
The Jewish community aa
where 15 bureaucrats who τὴ τῆ
Jews are employed, : new in
dreary walkup next door.

Rabbi Reunian picked up bisa
from the States and from ae
other countries of the Easter ©
and then it was off to the U.
bassy, where he dismissed id
for a few hours, telling him Net
walk home. Schultz saluted. δ 7
man uses the embassy library μὰ
cape from his driver, to ΠΝ
and to read the /nrernationa
Tribune. The other library PA
are GDR teenagers photos
Rolling Stone.

CHILDREN, SMILING
and men sporting an φατε Πα ας
seen in East Berlin, but no >
To take a hike un the wrong yout
the Wall is to have more
preconceptions confirmed

d. ἢ.
ες aren't many cblldt
Those you meet are quie
mice. The adults trudge org ad
The bookstores stock Let i
Brecht. Traffic is light, correo
mainly of rattling
ake of blue smoke, and the
band at a beer garden ae ig Ot
anderplatz where the :
oomp-pah-pahs zestlessly-

Nes
NG cu

. The money is funny om ae
somewhat larger than Baio |

due to a paper shortage.

ἐμῇ.
sadly.

tices. A ride on the bus, subway or
rlevitted culway is Δι Plennig. and
hay been 20 Pf. since the Red Army
anived. compared with DM 2.30in
West Berlin. A §-kilo sack of pota-
wes, of which there are plenty and
for which you don't have to stand in
line, sets you buck only 90 PE.

But not all the fuad on site is
simple, dirt-cheap and inferior.
There are alse delicutessens on Karl
Liebknecht Strasse where hetter-
dressed men and women patiently
wait to buy more expensive items
from East and West. Some of these
customers may be in the cutegory of
Vietims uf Fascism, drawing an ex-
tra 1.750 Marks monthly. But not
all. Not ‘surprisingly, Djilas’s new
class is also established in the Ger-
man Democratic Republic.

Nor is it surprising that efforts
have been made, and scarce funds
diverted, to muke downtown Eust
Berlin less unattractive. This district
drips with historical, cultural and
mythological associations. The
Alexanderplatz itself would proba-
bly be the red-hot centre of all Ber-
lin again, if the city were, as they
say, united. That's what it wus dur-
ing the famed Weimar Republic,
when Alfred Doblin, a Jew who be-
came a Catholic, named his novel
after it.

Within mortar range of the Alex-
anderplatz are many of the monu-
mental left-overs of German pride --
the State Opera, the New Guard
House, the Arsenal. These piles
from the past accidentally escaped
pulverization in the air-raids.
They're black with dirt -- apparently
the municipality lacks the fortune
needed to sandblast them clean. But
they're open for business, recalling a
Prussian heritage which, us Rabbi
Neuman said, it has been decided is
not to be despised, and attracting
western tourists with valita, hard
currency.

Having watched the goose-step at
the New Guard House, these tour-
ists can refresh themselves in a nice-
ly restored old tavern near St.Nicho-
las's Church. Locals -- ladies of the
a excepted -- can't enter the ho-
tels where foreigners stay, but they
can and do enjoy such hang-outs.
This is what they are meant to do.
Though the beer is poor, the reno-
vated surroundings take the edge off
incarceration.

EAST BERLIN, after all, is the show
case of the GDR. Like the capital-
ist half of Berlin, it is celebrating the
city’s 750th anniversary this year.
The East Berlin authorities do the
best they can. So far as the budget,
the mind-set and the system allow,

5 have been made to spruce up
the facade, to mark the date with
enthusiasm, bring in the valuta and
persuade the locals that they don't
have it so bad,

They're Berliners on this side of
the Wall too, however. so they're
apt to be sceptical, not to say cyni-
cal The 1,197-foot TV tower with
evolving restaurant -- taller than

he Biffel Tower -- is known unoffi-
mr 85 Telasparagus. The founders
of Communism, whose statues stand
woiarx-Engels-Platz, are said to be
ting for their exit visas. And the
permanent, outdoor display of pho-
thecchings tmemorializing events in

¢ struggle for peace and justice -- a
mament march in London is
ced, bul not the 1953 uprising in
The meets -- is ignored,
cante locals are as proud as they

an be of their town. But being Ber-
5, they also know what's what,

i generat they appear and are
Jumble or They move between the
᾿ eid Saee and
€ Palace of the Repub-

le like figures in a Saul Steinberg

Enst Berlin's Jewish community centre employs 15 bureaucrats -- none of them is Jewish.

cartoon come to life,

Taking Rosa Luxemburg Strasse,
one of the numerous streets re-
named after 1945 for Jewish Com-
munists, you soon wander into dis-
tricts tourists aren't brought to. No
facade here. Light bulbs in an un-
derground passage have been liber-
nated. The sidewalks are broken.

East Berlin, like West Berlin, is
enormous. There are miles of work-
ers’ estates built after the war ona
lower standard than Rabbi Neu-
man's house, and block after block
of older buildings incredibly still
bearing traces of the war. The bullet
and shrapnel scars haven't yet been
allended to, but whole window-
panes are in place, and people live
here. The men are downstairs work-
ing on their Skodas. Overhead is the
same sky, the same clouds as in
West Berlin. Can these be the same
Germans?

The GDR’s standard of living is
higher than that of any other East-
ern Bloc country. This is to be ex-
pected: the citizens of the GDR are
Germans, and Germans will work.
Yet it looks as though the system
which the Russians brought with
them, and to which there is no end
in sight, is able to keep even Ger-
mans a long way down. The East
German man in the street has true
social security. He'll never be fired,
never be jobless. This can’t be unim-
portant, especially for a German.
Despite that, he moves along, in this
era of glasnost and perestroika, as if
his future is behind him.

It’s like a blight, this material and
spiritual environment, like a punish-
ment for the sins of the fathers and
grandfathers. The East German
government won't pay reparations
to Israel or to any Jews. It says that
it isn't the heir to the Third Reich.
But the people of the GDR, includ-
ing the members of the new class,
keep paying a very stiff penalty. It
doesn't seem fair. It’s a surprise,
and it’s not right, that at the corner
of Friedrich Strasse and the fabled
Unter den Linden, women born af-
ter Hitler took poison should have
to dig ditches.

THE DITCH-DIGGERS on the
other side of the Wall, on the other
side of Checkpoint Charlie where
the blonde policewoman holds your
passport up to the light as 4 joke, are
Turkish men. They started.to be
brought in when the Wall was erect-
ed in 1961 and the capitalists were
deprived of cheap labour from the
Communist side. : -

The Turks and Yugostavs, howev-
er, do only West Berlin's dirtiest
jobs. The men laying bricks and
sawing planks at a building site on
the brilliant Kurfurstendamm, as
well as their apprentices, are bluff,
smiling, hardworking Germans. The
resemblances between West Berlin
and Israel go only so far. Among
other things, the Germans on the
right side of the Wall haven't given
up working with their hands.

West Berlin dazzles. It may be
nothing less than the best of the
West. It jumps, works and runs. The
Kurfurstendamm is where the inter-
national marathon, involving more
than 17,000 runners and scheduled
for the day after Yom Kippur,
would finish up. It's the most bril-
liant avenue in a town which ap-
pears to be considerably more bril-
fiant than Paris, London or New
York, Is this an optical illusion? It
could be, secing that West Berlin
also evokes a manned earth station
on the moon. The single tangible
piece of evidence of World War [1 is
the shell of the Kaiser Wilhelm Me-
morial Church. The bookstores car-
ry everything.

West Berlin creates its own
wealth. It also gets subsidies from
the national government, which are
granted to make the comparison
with the other side doubly conclu-
sive. A state within the Federal Re-
public, it's the biggest city of the
world’s No.1 exporting country. It's
almost as if it were trying to prove
that the heights of prosperity, mu-
sic, fashion, industry, science and
intellectual freedom can be scaled
with almost no Jews.

ONE JEW very much alive in West
Berlin, however, and enjoying him-
self these days, is Gad Beck. He
works at the Jewish community cen-
tre on Fasanenstrasse, off the Ku-
damm. This dignified, well-guard-
ed, luxurious building on the spot
where a synagogue stood until Kris-
ialinacht, was paid for by the West
Germans. A fancy archway from the
original edifice frames the severe
doorway of the present structure.
Beck, second in command at the
centre, is very busy, and likes to give
the impression of being even more
harried than he is.

“You want to talk? Not here!
Let's get away from these phones!"
he cried in Hebrew.

We crossed the Ku-damm to a
lovely coffeehouse set in a.marvel-
lous garden. Beck is known to the
management, has his regular table,

(Ruth)

banters in crackling German with
the waitress. The wine is excellent.

“You see,”” he said, “East Ger-
many invited this rabbi because it's
in terrible shape and they think the
Jews on this side have clout, eco-
nomic clout. There's still this myth
of the Jewish conspiracy. Of course
Jews in West Berlin don’t have pow-
er. All they have is maybe some
moral influence. But we don’t tell
the East Germans this. They're in-
terested in credits, and aid, and sell-
ing to the West Berlin market. They
want to be in good odour with all
elements, including the Jewish com-
munity. Why not?

“So they invited Rabbi Neuman,
to show that they're not going to let
their own Jews die out. There's a
rabbinical sominary reopened in Bu-
dapest, but it would have taken
years before they could get a gradu-
ate from there. Neuman was right
for them -- he was available, a Polish
Jew yet Reform, and not an Isracti.

“It didn't start with Neuman. For
the last several years, you see, reli-
gion has been playing a larger role in
Eastern Europe. Al the same time
as the Communists started opening
up to the Catholics, they also re-
laxed toward the Jews. Two years
ago, there was a plan to cul a road
through the Jewish cemetery in
Weissensee, in East Berlin. We got
wind of it, and the American Jews
raised a clamour. The East Germans
saw that this wouldn't do, especiaily
with the 750th anniversary coming.

“Galinski wrote to Honecker,”
said Beck, savouring his wine and
referring, respectively, to his boss at
the centre, Heinz (Heim) Galinski,
and the boss of East Germany,
Erich Honecker. “In response,
Honecker invited Galinski‘over to
meet Gysi, who I hear is half-
Jewish. So Galinski went in his car.
Galinski and the mayor of West
Berlin, Eberhard Diepgen, go
around in armoured cars. Gysi
promised Galinski that the cemetery
wouldn't be harmed. And it hasn't
been. Diepgen was insulted because
the East Germans went Urough Ga-
linski. You see, both sides use the

Jews. One thing led to another. The .

cemetery led to the rabbi.”

Born in Berlin, Beck lived
through the war underground. He
later spent years working for the
Histadrut and drinking the coffee at
Kassit. But neither the drinks nor
the conversation on Dizengoff com-
pares to the Ku-damm's. While stat-
ing that Israel is his homeland, Beck
finds it more interesting in West

Berlin, and mntike some Jews there.
he’s not delensive abut his choice.
Me sighs about the tourists. must
of thems σῶν ες who show up at the
centre ng for lectures on Ure real
Jewish community of Berlin, the
ene which used to streteh fren the
Alexanderplitz te Grunewald. the
one he wis born into. Whit can he
do? He's one of the last wilnessess.
Can he refuse? ‘Therefore be lee-
tures, he tukes the goad people
around -- it's one of his many jobs
until next year, when he retires.
But if the Jews of West Berlin,
consisting more and more of Rus-
sians with Israeli passports, aren't a
patch on what"used to be, at least
they know who they are and have a
future, says Gad Beck. This is be-
cause they have finks with Israel.
They keep apartments in Tel Aviv
and Jerusalem, they run an active
Wizo chapter, they send their chil-
dren to the Jewish state τὸ study and
find inartiage partners, and they do-
nate millians of DMs yearly. The
Jews of East Berlin, their new rabbi
notwithstanding, have ne future.

THE ONLY VOWS which niust be
kept, Rabbi Neuman suid in his ser-
mon on the night of Yom Kippur,
are the ones made at Mount Sinai.

The talk he gave in Germun,
while (he service was in Hebrew. As
it was chanted by the cantor and the
other old-timers helping the rabbi at
the altar and the ark, this Hebrew
sounded like recordings from an ar-
chive. [1 echoed and droned. If the
archaic Ashkenazi accent umused
an Israeli, the Janguage itself was
Greek for most of the approximate-
ly 200 people guthered in the un-
heated main hall of the Rykestrasse
synagogue.

There's room in this grand, ghost-
ly sanctuary with its soaring roof and
enclosed chancel for five times that
number. Damaged but not de-
stroyed in Kristallnach? becuuse it
abutted on German buildings, the
synagogue was used during the war
for storage and lately has been re-
furbished by the East German gov-
ernment. Yet 200 was a big crowd,
larger than usual for Kol Nidre in
the last four decades.

Though not instructed to do so by
Rabbi Neuman, it had segregated
itself -- women to one side of the
aisle, men to the other, The people
here were the old, the almost-old,
and the not-sv-old. There were ulsu
quite a few men und women under
40, and some children. It was a
mixed bag. There were Jews, half-
Jews and what were once called
Aryans living with Jews or looking
for something in Judaism.

Everyone had a story which
would make a good book. The
youngish had been born into a world
which was supposed to be both
brave and new. The old had seen the
world go mad. They had known ex-
tremities of anxiety, humiliation and
pain, of brutality and loss, and if
they were Communists, they had
not only experienced but added to
this misery. All those over 60, Com-
munists or not, had made some kind
of deal with the devil somewhere
along the line, for which someone
from the outside, younger and luck-
ier; could hardly blame them.

The people in the synagogue
weren’t so much a community as ἃ
gathering of human bits and pieces
left over at the tail-end of a lunatic
century.

They obviously wanted very
much, however, to-feel like a com-
munity, and it appeared to a visitor
as if they were succeeding, if only
for a couple of hours. Though lost in
the rite and the language, those who
were not so old as to have lost all
expression looked much jollier than ,
Jews usually look on Yom Kippur.

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Published when Bismark was
chancelhir and hidden sway sone:
where tram the Mae - hike the
taagicil, dlevible ubjeats they were
‘They staval and sat and stoud i
nneertainly.

siniling at neighbours and at kino
the other side of the ante. Though it
way onld in the synagegue, they
ditty) seem to notice or mind, hav-
ing gathered! to huddle fur warmth
und having, from atl appearances,
temporarily found it.

Neunian defivered his sermon ina
Strong voice, with some sense, if not
a perfect one, of time, place and
audience. His words were follawed
closely. Anywhere Jews guther to
pray, he sand, was a holy place. (fe
offered a hassidic parable. He posed
the Zen question, “What is the
sour of one hand clapping?” Puz-
zleinen came over some faces,

Having delivered his speech, he
let the cantor “- one of (he men who
kept things going during the previ-
ous decades -- carry on for a while,
and made a beeline for a smaller
room where a ceramic stove gave off
heat. The rabbi had the sniffles.

“There's no consideration for hu- -
man needs,” he complained. “I
cun't find Kleenex in this town! And
why do the services have to be in
that big space, when there aren't
enough people to fill it? Don't you
think it would be much cosier und
more sensible here? All right -- ] can
understand tonight, it's Kol Nidre,
But no, they insist on staying out
there il] day tomorrow too. I'm hay-
ing problems with the conservatives.
They want everything done as it’s
always been done. They don't want
any changes.”

He wiped his strongly-modelled
nose with his fingers. The rabbi was
wearing his satin robes over two
sweaters.

“Tsee my main task as adult edu-
cation, and bringing younger mem-
bers into the community. The con-
servatives are suspicious about this. 4
They see these young people who've ‘si
never been here before, and some of &
whom belong to the Party, and the:
question their reasons. They thin

what they really may want is an exit
VISA.

“There have been two or three
cases of individuals like this who
joined the community and then said
that they couldn't live Jewishly ex-
cept in the West, and were let out. 1
can understand the establishment.
‘Those who stayed and kept up ob-
servance were non-Party, Those
who turned their backs were Party.
HJudiism becomes known as a way
oul of the country, this will be bad
for the community. But there have
been only two or three cases like
this. The main thing with the old-
timers is not to make waves, to pre-
serve the cemeteries and keep things
ἂν they are. They're making it hard-
er to join the community than it is to
join the Party. Thut's the mentulity.

“What T need ure cdecational
tools, The comaunity doesn’t have
hooks, 1 πός Lcbrew primers, Jew-
ish history books, tiles like Herman
Wouk's This ls My People aad all of
Bh Wiesel in German. i need Jewish
music for the children. [f anyone
wants to send this, they should, 1
need a youth lender. Maybe [ can
get one from West Berlin. Ὁ need
prayer-books -- the ones we have
should be in ἃ museum. We're ox:
pecting some new ones from Basel,

The outhorities aren't making any.
problems. fi
“need a copying machine badly.,
The community got permission to.
have onc on condition that the mu-
nicipality could also use it. But so

PAGE SIX

far the AJC, which promised me,
hasn't come through. That's what |
need, not matzos and wing --those 1
can get from Budapest.”

Rabbi Neuman sighed,

“Ἐπὶ not going to stay for more
than a year. 1 want to open it up.
Maybe I'll be succeeded by an
Amejican, maybe by an Israeli if
there are diplomatic relations. First
T have to establish a system. I'm
impatient for things to be done
right. [f l see resulis -- young people
coming in, a Sunday school -- | may
stay longer.

“T'm going to take a vacation after
Succol. ['m going to the States for
seven weeks. [ll be back for
Hanukka."

And what do the rabbi's two sons
do?

“They're both very, very success-
ful," he snid, glowing suddenly with
salisfaction. “My oldest. David Al-
exander Neuman. is a vice-presidont
aUNBC-TYV. He's head of the come-
dy division. My youngest, Mark, is
political director of the National
Jewish Coalition in Washington.

‘That's the lobby. run by Max

Fisher." =

It was lime to get back to work,
Neuman composed hinsself, re-
turned solemnly to the bing, con:
ferred with the cantor, and before
the service ended slipped id n prayer
asking that the State of Israel be
granted peace and its leaders
wisdom. 3 BS

He shook hands warmly: with
young and old, who pressed around

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him in the vestibule, and then Herr
Schultz drove him home.

LET'S CALL them Hans and
Gretchen. He’s Jewish, she’s not.
They've been living together for 11
years in their digs in a roomy old
hulk on the outskirts of East Berlin,
where the rain gets in through the
roof. Their child is 10 years old.
Hans is employed, because he has
to be. His heart isn't in his job. Like
70,000 other East Berliners, he,
Gretchen and the child went to a
park a few weeks ago, before Rosh
Hashana, to be at the first-ever con-
cert given in the Eastern Bloc by
Bob Dylan. The star kept his fans
waiting hours, which, -Aaccording to

Hans, was OK. But it wasn't all.

right that Dylan then spat out only
three songs and disappeared.
What Hahs is really crazy about
are Jewish cemeteries and old ‘pust-
cards, His plensure is to prowl junk-
shops throughout the GDR search-
ing for special finds, such as a three-
colour view of the Alexanderplatz in
1897, and a Jayne Mansfield perched
‘on a Lambretta, circa 1955, His fel-
low collector is another youngish
Jew -- let's call him Dicter -- who's

coming over later, Hans has no

guile, and perhaps not much fear or
Judgement, cither -- he’s as ready to
talk ‘openly, intensely dbout Jews
and Germans as he is to show off his
trophies.

Gretchen's job takes hér to War-
saw and Moscow. She has frimed an
Isracli poster obtained in-Moscow:

(Clockwise from above) Hanukka at the community
centre, East Berlin. Learning Hebrew phoenetically.
Oljean Ingster, cantor of the East Berlin congregation for
the past {7 years, conducts Friday night service.

The Germans, in her view, lack
what the Slavs have in abundance,
namely soul, She taps her forehead.
“The Germans on this side are de-

Pressed. It's because they can't
travel.”

Where to?
“The West."
To West Berlin? West Germany?

“No! That's not the West! To °

Paris!”

While Hans goes off to work in

Ha kitchen, Gretchen talks about
im.

"He always says what he thinks.
This has always been a problem in
this grat and still is. He's not reli-
gious, He helps out the community
as much as he can, and he attends
the High Holyday services, because
he wants to feel his roots. It helps
him feel less‘lonely, He's not sure
about the Germans. He's not sure
what their parents did. When he's
with other Jews his age, people
whose parents have the same past as
his parents, he feels better. I've told
him ever since I've known him --
‘Go to the Jewish community!”

We attack the food around the
kitchen table. .

“It doesn't bother"you to eat to-
night, does 4?" Hans asks.
. There's sausage,. cheese, bread
and wine, of mediocre-to-fair
quolity, ᾿ - ee

“After the war,” says Hans,
“there. were basically three kinds of
Jews here: There were the survivors
of the camips, there were those who

survived underground and there -

i
i

were those whe had taken refuge in
Moscow. The first two groups
weren't political. The third wis ..
they were the Communists. My put.
ents were in the third group.

“They called themselves atheists,
They believed that now there
wouldn't be any more i i-Semi-
tism. They got political jabs, in fac-
tories and government. They didn't
educate their children as Jews at all.
As a matter of fact, my father fur.
mally left the community, declared
in writing that he wasn't a part of it.
The people who kept up the syna-
Bogue were those who'd survived
underground. And yet, when |
asked my father where my prand-
parents were, he told me the truth.

“I learned about my father’s ca-
reer from documents I found tong
after he died. He was high up until
1951, That was the year of the
Slansky trial in Czechoslovakia. His
career went into decline, and he
never recovered. He died soon af-
terwards. My mother wasn't in the
Jewish community after that either,
so I grew up ignorant. I've always
felt strange and lonely in this
society.”

The wine has started trembling
delicately.

“I think Israel is a guarantee for
Jews in countries where their status
isn’t so good or where it’s jeopar-
dized. I've thought so since the war
in 1967 and the invasion of Czecho-
slovakia the next year. I was drafted
into the People's Army in 1968, right
after Czechoslovakia. I was in for
two years.

“The Yom Kippur War only
made my feeling for Israel stronger.
Of course, I have problems with
Sharon. And the Palestinians should
have their own country, their home-
land -- but not in Israel."

Whatever has been causing the
wine to tremble is now rumbling
powerfully up through the floor.

“In spite of that, Judaism was a

= private matter for me until a few

years ago. I was on reserve duty. It
was Rosh Hashana, and I asked for
and got permission to go to syna-
Bogue. The next day I was called
before brigade command and ques-
tioned by a panel of officers. One of
them asked me, ‘What's your posi-
tion on Israel?’ 1 said to him,
‘What's your position on Bolivia?
That was that -- I was taken out of
the commandos, and now Jn an
army gardener. This was the start of
my life as a Jew. Before that I also
did some stuff, but this led me to
register." ;

The whole hulk of a house is now
shaking. What is it, an earthquake?

“No, it's tanks. The People’s
Army. They're practising for GDR
National Day next week.”

Aren't German soldiers prohibit-
ed in Berlin?

“Yes,” ;

Later, when it's quite quiet again,
Dieter appears out of the night.
He's a Party member, not ἃ regis-
tered Jew and he seems to take life a
good deal easier. Some of his re-

.-tmarks look hard on paper, but he

tosses them off with a twinkle in his
eye.
“T can go to Viadivostok, but |
can’t go to West Berlin. If there
were a short marathon throug
Checkpoint Charlie, you'd have mil-
lions of participants.””

And Rabbi Neuman? .

“He's successful,” says Dieter.
and Hans nods agréement. “His
mistakes in German are sweet.
Some people don’t like him because
they think he’s trying to change tie
much too fast. He wants to cal
women up to the Tora, I like him.
He's open-minded. He's not heavy.
like the Germans. I like his para-
bles. You can understand from ΩΣ
whatever you like.”

ἦν
atte

‘Topography of Terror’ exhibition. The sign reads ‘The fate of the German Jews 1939-45.’

West Berlin paradoxes

THE HOUSE at Prinz Albrecht
Strasse 8 was once one of the most
feared addresses in Hitler's Berlin.
The former Schoo! of Arts and De-
sign was taken over by the Gestapo
in May 1933, and served as its head-
quarters until the very end of the
war and the capitulation of Germa-
ny in May 1945. Tens of thousands
of people were dragged to the build-
ing during the 12 years of Nazi rule,
were interrogated, tortured and on

i there, and many never Ic

Today there is no trace of the
building. The entire area bordering
on Prinz Albrecht Strasse and Wil-
helm Strasse, once the centre of
power of the terror regime of the
Nazi Third Reich, is now a big
wasteland in the heart of Berlin.

Even the name Prinz Albrecht has

disappeared, as the street thal runs
alongside the wall dividing East and
West Berlin was renamed in the Fif-
ties to Kaethe Niederkirchner
Strasse, to commemorate a German
Tesistunce fighter who was mur-
dered by the SS.

The scarred ruins uf the buildings
of the Gestapo headquarters, the
adjacent offices of SS Reichsfuehrer
Heinrich Himmler, the SD security
Service offices of Reinhard Hey-

ich, and the Reich Security head
Office were razed to the ground in

* the Fifties and early Sixties, and the”

entire site was leased to a construc-

~ “lon and earth-moving contractor.

In one part of the huge area a
Luna Park-type autodrome was put
Up, while West Berlin's city planners
called for the construction of a mo-

.l0rway that would cut through the
site. Until recently, only a small sign
‘Surrounded by overgrown weeds re-

- ‘Called the shameful history of the
+ place,

‘| The history of the real seat of
_ Power of the SS state where thou-
*, Sends -of “desk murderers” — the
‘Schreibtischmoerder, as they are re-
ferred to by the Germans — were at

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1987

work for years was made invisible
and declined into oblivion. _

Reflecting on this seemingly inex-
plicable phenomenon over 25 years
later, enlightened Berliners today
muse that the city’s rulers of both
major parties -- the SPD and the
CDU -- must have thought subcon-
sciously that if they tatally destroyed
and razed to the ground all visible
traces of Nazi rule, the memory of
the darkest period of German histo-
ry would somehow go away.

But it didn’t. The spectre of Ber-
lin’s Nazi horrors continucd to
haunt the city.

SEVEN YEARS AGO, with the
reconstruction of the Martin Gropi-
us building, a neighbour of the for-
mer Gestapo headquarters, as ἃ mu-
seum and exhibition site, public

attention was drawn to the adjacent
area. Responding to a reawakening
of public interest in the history of
the Nazi regime, especially in the
unger, second post-war genera-
ion = an interest that had been

Ari Rath

repressed for decades -- in June 1983
the Berlin Senate issued a public
tender for a competition that would
provide a plan for the landscaping of
the entire Prinz Albrecht site, in-
cluding a memorial to the viclims of
Fascism.

The entrants were expected to
give expression to contradictory re-
quirements. They were required to
“harmonize the deep historical sig-

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nificance of the site with such future
functions as a park, 8 playground
anda landscape open to the public.
Although the jury awarded a first
prize in April 1984 with the recom-
mendation to put the plan into ef-
fect, severe public criticism of the
entire concept prompted Mayor
Eberhard Diepgen to shelve the
scheme cight months later and to
inform the winners that it would not
be carried out. Instead, Berlin's sen-
ator for cultural affairs, Volker Has-
semer, was put in charge of the site
whose provisional restructuring
would become part of the city’s
750th anniversary celebrations this
ear.
᾽ After clearing the site of huge
hills of rubble, it was decided to dig
up part of the foundations and basc-
ment of the Gestapo headquarters.

d i t of the
) The ramp of the freight section of the Grunewald Bahnhof from which Berlin's Jews were deported. (Below) One of the former Gestapo headquarters cells which now form part of

(Photos: Ari Rath)

In the process, a number of cellar
cells of an adjacent building that had
been used by the Gestapo as a
“house prison” were found intact.
This led to the idea of putting up a
temporary pavilion over the cells
that would howe an exhibition do-
cumenting the “Topography of Ter-
ror,” as it is called.

Opening the exhibition lust July,
Hassemer said that following de-
cades of suppression -- the notorious
Verdraengung syndrome -- ““cven in
a thousand years, this part of Ger-
man history which attests to its grint-
mest chapter will not be forgottcn.

“We are the only inheritors of this
history, which cannot be divided
into a positive continuity, exempt-
ing the chapter of our ghastly past,
he said." By exposing this si and
by studying its history in_its grim
details we are again muking it an
integral part of this city, after il was
removed far too long fram our

memory und from Berlin's present.”

FROM THE DAY the ‘Topugra-
phy of Terror™ pavilion upened ils
doors, hundreds of visitors filled its
narrow, winding passages und the
recently-uncovercd basement cells
every hour of the day. Where once
Gestapo prisoners lingered for
weeks and months, young and mid-
die-aged Germans are now studying
the meticulous details of the Nazi
‘horror-machine. :
Awestruck, they move in dead si-
lence from display to display, often
wiping tears from their cycs. Every
now and then someone steps out
into the open ground to inhale some
fresh air and recover from the shock
of what is for many the first visual
confrontation with the Nazi past of
their people. ᾿
For, strange as this may sound,
this is the first comprehensive exhi-
bition that deals with the dark chap-
ter of Nazi Germany in ils entirety.
There are also older couples who

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fram paye 1}

lived through that penal and come
foodie their own p ΠΊΩΝ
ΟΝ
bystanders,

Huge proture displays at the vane
Phed edifices ot Nezt ule anda the
nest notarius Nat lealers i their
heblic appeacanees at the haytht af
their power ave dick the clock
seme SO years to the days ut the
other Berlin, the Rete hsduupivandi,
capital of Thtler's Third Reich,
Charts of SS orders, detention lists
and deportation figures depict the
enormity of the crimes committed in
fhe name of the purity of the Ger-
mat nation,

Side by side with the pictures of
the perpetrators = the Teeter -- are
displays of the victinis.

‘The main ducumentation of per-
secution of the Jews uf Ge Duny
and of Navi-naled Europe is in the
basement cells, where video dis.
plays augmene the silly of the exhi-
hition. ‘There is special emphasis on
German political prisoners -- artists,
actors, intellectuals i
it ind Communist activists who re-
sted the ΝΉΙ reginwe from) the
outset.

‘The abortive July 20, 144, puitsch
alternpt against Hiller by a yroup of
senior Webnnachs officers and rink-
ing Foreign Ministry officials who
tealized by then that the war was
lost -- it was six weeks after 1-Day,
the Lanting of Allied traups in Nor-
mandy -- folms anather chapter of
sahibilion. The leaders of this
anti-llitler conspiracy all passed
through these Gestapo prison cells
hefore they were brompht before the
notorions Peuple's Court - the
Volksyericht -τ and sentenced ta
sleath for :

Originally. pography of
Terror” exhibition was intended τὰ
he only a temporary display, to re-
main open for four months. But it
soon hecame clear fo the organizers
that it would have to stay there for
good.

Almost every entry in the visitors’
book praised the fact that at last
there was an opportunity to learn
about the hitherto suppressed and
almost forgotten Nazi period, and
expressed the demand thit it be
maintained as it permanent exhibi-
tion site,

THAT THE HISTORY of Berlin
throughout the ages is inseparable
fram that of its Jewish citizens is
best demonstrated in the main exhi-
bitien, “Berlin-Berlin", in the Mar-
tin Gropius building.

Widking through the various exhi-
bilion rooms, one almost gets the
(celing that Rerlin today has a Jew-
ish complex when it lunks back to its
historical roots. By the entrance to
the first raom ane is faced with a
Jewish tombstone with u Hebrew
inscription that dates back to the
yenr 1340. 1 was unearthed 30 years
ago in Spandau, as part of a medi-
eval Jewish cemetery. 5

That was only 100 yeurs after the
first written ducument mentioning
the town of Coelin was found, It is
this document of October 28, 1237,
that is regarded as the formal begin-
ning of Berlin, as Collin had close
links with the other town across the
tiver Spree and established a formal
union with it 70 years Inter -- hence

Berlin's 750th anniversary celebra- .

ans this your. : :
Already in its early years, Berlin

encouraged some Jewish families to.

cume to the town, and the city's re-

cords show that it pave them special ᾿

residence permits, in order ta devel-
op its ttade.

As in the rest of medieval Eu- ;

rope, Jews were, of course, still very

restricted in their movements and.

chvices of trade, but they mado their
mark on the cily's rapid commercial

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The reur gute to Gestapo headquarters,

remnant still standing. in

Jewish Question was held on

Reichsluffahrnninisterium which barely suffered any damage during the war.

(Above) The foundations and basement v
villa in the Wannsee suburb o,

through which thousands of prisoners were brought, is the only

+

the background, beyond the wall, in East Berlin, is Goering's former

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walls of Gestapo headquarters, unearthed last year. (Below) The

if Berlin where the notorious Wannsee Conference o the Final Soluti
5 Sakata ufe ital Solution of the

._ .Berlinjs finally facing its past.

development even in’ those early
days. .

In the IXth century, Berlin he.
came the centre of the Enlighten.
ment in Europe, very much due ta
the writings of such persons as Mo-
ses Mendelssohn and Gutthald
Ephraim Lessing and the Famous fit-
crury salons of two Jewish ladies,
the wives of wealthy merchinis, Ra-
hel Levin and Henriette Herz.

Although these social and cultural
gatherings of Berlin's intellectuals --
the Munday Club and the Wednes-
day Society -- disregarded class dif.
ferences und removed the barriers
between Christians and Jews, there
were still tensions between the city’s
enlightened citizens and official
Berlin, writes Prof. Reinhard
Ruerup, the historian who con-
ceived the entire exhibition as well
as the “Topography of Terror™
documentation.

Thus, Mendelssohn was not al-
lowed to join the Academy, and
Lessing found it difficult to get em-
ployment. But they, and some of
their colleagues, set the tone and
made Berlin famous for its rich eul-
tural and intellectual ambiance.

The increasing involvement of
Jewish artists, writers, musicians
and actors in Berlin's cultural life
during the 19th and 20th centuries,
until Hitler's rise to power, should
therefore be seen as a natural devel-
opment deriving from this period of
the Enlightenment.

WHO REMEMBERS TODAY
that in the elections to the
Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
in November 1932, Hitler's Nation-
al-Socialist Party had less than one-
third of the seats in the German
parliament, while the Social Demo-
crats and the Communists logether
had over 50 per cent. Even in the
last_ Reichstag elections in March
1933, two months after Hitler was
named Reichskanzler and one
month after the burning of the
Reichstag, the Nazis in Berlin re-
ceived only 37 per cent of the vote,
over [0 per cent below the national
average. Hitler's propaganda chief.
Goebbels, who was the Nazi Gatt-
leiter of Berlin, could not achieve
full impact in his own city. ᾿

The Nazi chapter of Berlin's his-
tory is also given wide expression in
the general exhibition. There is #
mass of propagunda leaflets. reflect-
ing the organization of the Nazi
power structure before Hiller ma-
neuvered himself into becoming
chancellor by violent threats and
Sheer mass intimidation, using to the
utmost the much- weakened demo-.
cratic system of the Weimar Repub-
lic's last twilight period. And docu-
ments from the last war years show
Goebbels still whipping up support
for the Fuehrer in his notorious
Sportpalast speeches. ee

On one of the walls there is a little
scribbled note by a child saying.
“Papa, Mama and 1 have been tak-
en to the Hamburg Bahnhof. Please
join us."

Then there is the full-scale model
of the huge People's Hall — the
Voelkerhalle -- which was to accom-

* modate 150,000 people who would

come from all parts of Europe and
the world to Comune, the name
Berlin was to assume as the Ger-
manic world capital according to
Hitler's mad delusions of grandeur.
in order to admire the achievements
and way of life of the German supet-
Face, 7 Rete
This Sunday, the “Berlin-Berlin
exhibition will close its gates after ἃ
most successful three-month show-

τ ing. The special permanent section

of Berlin's Jewish community's his-
tory in the Gropius building will re-
main. So. will the “Topography of
Terror": documentation pavilion. P

-FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1987

A vanished|
metropolis |

Ernie Meyer

ETI

THE FIRST Jews in Hamburg were Portu-
guese Marranos who settled there at the end
of the [6th century; Hamburg was the largest
Jewish community in Germany until the !80Us,
accounting for about 2 per cent of the total
population; the Ninth Zionist Congress took
place in Hamburg in December 1909, the first
such gathering on German soil; the term anti-
Semitism was coined about 1870 by Hamburg
journalist Wilhelm Marr.

These and a multit of other facts are
highlighted in an exhibition at Yad Vashem
called “A Jewish Metropolis -- the Jewish
Communities of A-H-W {Altona-Hamburg-
Wandsbeck)." The exhibition was prepared
by the Museum of the History of Hamburg
with the cooperation of former residents of
the community now living in Isracl.

The exhibit was originally shown in Hum-
burg, where il was viewed by over 45,000
people, out of an annual total of 100,000
. visitors to the museum. It consists of large wall

panels combining photographs with text. (En-

glish and Hebrew translations are provided.)
One pane! covering the years 1800 - 1900,
# for instance, describes the move of the Jewish
population out of the Old City into the Grin-
de! suburb. In 1885 there were already 16,700
"Jews in the city. The community supported 34
: institutions, ranging from synagogues to Tal-
mud Tora schools, girls’ schools, a hospital and
an orphanage. In May 1939, the schools had a
combined enrolment of about 600.
In 1867, the community adopted a new con-
stitution, which while retaining overall con-
trol, granted the separate Portuguese, Ortho-
dox, Reform and Eastern European parts of
the community full autonomy. Known as the
“Hamburg System,” the approach was suc-
cessfuly adopted by other Jewish communities
in Germany. '

The culturally diverse community produced .
leading Orthodox and Reform rabbis. In the
18th century the names of Rabbi Ya‘acov
Emden and Rabbi Jonathan Eybeshutz stand
out.

1933 boycott of Jewish products. (Below) Synagogue, Barnplatz, 1906.

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RING the Holocaust, about 7,800 Ham-
red Jews were deported to Lodz, Auschwitz,
Theresienstadt, Minsk and Riga. One panel at
4 the exhibit lists the names of 400 pupils and
their teachers who perished. f

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THE VINTER FAMILY came te
Kraed frem Seuth Africa at the be-
the “S04 out af religions
. Unlike Jewish families
Ἢ from South Africa, the
Afrikaner-Calvinint family came
here in order to experience the bibli-
cal atmosphere, intending to stay fur
afew years and then retin to their
homelind.

The parents and their four sons
slayed here for more than 20) years
first in Eilat (ihe father working
mining engineer at the πα cop-
ines), and then in Poriya, near
as, overooking the Sea of
All the sons studied in Is-
tachi schools and served in the IDF
as Officers an elite units. Although
Afrikaans was their mother-tongue,

flebrew decume their daily
hinguage.
After the mother's death τὰ the

carly "70s, the rest of the family
decided to return te South Africa.
But there was ἃ problem for one of
the sons, known in Israel as Yo:
and in South Africa us Jo-
hannes or doe} He had fallen in
Jove with Vivi, an [stueli Jewish girl
from Jerusalem.

During his army service he decid-
ed to conver! to Judaism in order to
be able to marry Vivi, After their
martinge, he took her to South Afri-
ca, where they joined the rest of the
family in Pretoria.

Since Yohanan and his three
brothers had previous agricultural
experience (he and his twin brother
had studied at Hakfar Hayarok agri-
cultural high school near Tel Aviv,
while the two older ones, Ephraim
and Gabi, had worked as farm man-
agers in the Transvaal), they «ecid-
ed to set up a farm between Pretoria
and Johannesburg.

At first, the brothers had an ex-
Isracti partner; but when he diced a
few years ogo, they bought his
share, and now (he farm belongs
solely to them. It consists mainly of
a plant nursery, based on Israeli
know-how.

I VISITED the Vinters’ farm last
month, The moment I urrived, one
of the brothers, who had been an
officer in the Golani Brignde, asked
me in fluent sabra Hebrew what was
Yehoram Gnon’s latest hit. Yo-
hanan (who has changed his family
hame to Tal) and his brothers talk
Hebrew among themselves rather
than Afrikaans, They especially use
Hebrew when they do not want their

Afrikaner customers to understand .

their conversation.

They are the strangest mixture:

Afrikaner-Israclis, or Israeli-Airi-

kaners. The notes they leave each -

other on the office board are written
in Hebrew. Their children, who
were born in South Africa and have
never dcen ty Israel (except Yohun-
an's) speak almost fluent Hebrew,

ey call the parts of the mursory
by typical Israeli names, They main-
tain contact with the Isracli Embas-
sy in Pretoria and with Israclis living
in Pretoria and Johannesburg, read
Isracli newspapers, nre eager for up-
to-Unte information about Isract, for

new records und new books from,

what they call “home.” ;

AS FOR YOHANAN and Vivi Tal,

they regard thomsclves as {ull Israe-

lis, staying in Pretoria {onporarily.

Thoy plan ta return to Istacl and .

setlte down here within the aext 10

cars. Yohnnan suys. that “Hebrew

“Is the Jangungé 1 can.oxpress myself
best in, although Afrikaans is my

mother-tonguc. Afier converting to. ἡ
Jucnism, Trognrd myself as an Tstae- :

li Jew of Afrikaner origin.

“Many Israclis, like many other ,

foreigners, have the wrong concep-
tion of this country,” he says. “Be-
cause of our Israeli background, we
iry to help Israclis who come here

(Above and below) Black workers at the Vin ters’ furm, located between Pretoria and Johannesburg.

Family affairs

searching far work.

“A few years ago, an [srueli from
Tel Aviv arrived here with his head
full of ideas about ‘liberating’ thé
blacks. He did not know the basic
facts of the crisis here, but he al-
ready knew the solutions. [le
thought he had the remedy, an in-
stant one, for the South African
tragedy: to create yet unother trage-
dy by expelling all the whites.

“He started working on the farm
as a siinple labourer, und a few
months later he disappeared for wo
dr three years, We're used here to

faclis coming to the farm look-
ing for work, and then disappearing
atfer two or three months. They
hear of us in Pretoria, and try to
earn their airfare back to Israel by

working here.
_{“But this Isracli was a special
f e. We've heard rumours about

him saying that he went on a trip up
the river here, to one of the Bantu

villages, and got married there to
one of the local girls.

“To cul a long story short, when
he eventually came back, he told us
the rumours were (ruc. Not only was
he married, but he had two children
by that black a - He was penniless,
but unlike other foreigners, who in

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Yehuda Litani
continues his report
from South Africa

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such cases desert the family and run
back to their countries, this Isracli
was what he described as 'a man of

rinciple’ and decided to stay and
look after his family.

“It is strange enough for me, an
ex-Afrikaner, to get married to an
Israeli girl,” Yohanan wenton, “but

lived over 20 years in Israel. Can
you imagine how strange the whole
mess was for that Israeli who mar-
tied a black girl in that hole of a
village far away in Bantuland ? He
used to work here for a few months,
then return to the village to visit his
family.

“He wasn't able to understand,
Jet alone talk to his own children,
since they were raised by their black
grandmother, who speaks only Ban-
tu. He could only understand a few
words of that language, and he is
‘still leading a miserable life.

“He's now working somewhere
else in this area, but every now and
then I hear of him. They say he is
still working on farms as a simple
labourer, making very little Money,
still wandering between the Pretoria
area and the Bantu village. That's
what happened to his big dreams of
‘Hiberating’ the blacks.”

. In bis

The children (both his and his broth

YOHANAN TOLD ME that when
he came back to South Africa from
Isracl, “I was astonished to sce the
change in this country. The change
I mean, regarding apartheid and the
status of the blacks and the co.
loureds. It is much better now than
it used to be 10, 20 years ago. But
People in the outside world do not
understand how difficult it is to
transform, to gradually change the
situation. You cannot understand,
because you don't live and ‘work
with the blacks as we do,

“Take this farm, for instance,
This morning [ had to send my best

“worker, who serves as foreman,

back to his tribe -- about two days’
ride from here. When you hear the
reason, you simply won't believe
me. All the other black workers
claimed yesterday that the foreman
is really a wizard. They all had stomach-
aches, and they blamed him for
it, saying he had bewitched them all,
in order to kill them. A delegation
of the workers came and demanded
that we expel ‘the wizard’ from the

ἢ farm.

“We could do nothing but send
him away. Otherwise, all the other

_ workers would have left us in no

time. I paid him his full wages for
the next five to six months, asking
him to return then. Maybe they'll
have forgotten it by then.

“That's life for us here, that's the
daily reality we have to contend
with. Most of the blacks in our coun-
try are very simple people, most of
them still live as though it was two or
three thousand years ago. I hate to
use the word, but that's their men-
tality. 1 know that in Israel, we hate
to use the word mentality in refer-
ring to Arabs.

“Only a thin layer among the
blacks, maybe 10, no more than 20
per cent, who live in the cities are
More up-to-date and educated.
They feel the difference between
them and the whites, and even the
coloureds. They know that only they
are being discriminated against,
compared to the other races here.
And that is because they have con-
tact with the other races. All the rest
πο they do not even know what is
going on because they are so back-
ward, I know that there‘is much to
be done, but first you have to know
the reality.

“Do you know that if one of our
black workers -- they. live not far
away from here, in their own quat-
ters -- if he wants to sleep with one
of the girls, it's enough for him to
buy her a bottle of Coca-Cola. She 7
understand that he wants her, am
she'll sleep with him. For them, δὲς
is an entirely different thing -- ¢@5Y
come, easy go.”

YOHANAN AND his twin brother
took me around the farm, explain-
ing how they had started te
scratch 15 years ago, building all!
facilities according to their oa
plans, often with their own hands.
And now they are prosperous, ἘΝ
-ploying about 30 workers, but stl
working very hard, and very long
hours.

On the way back to Johannesburg
lush BMW, he said: 7
most difficult thing for the blacks :
to work fo. other blacks. The
black people who suddenly becon ἢ
rich treat their workers in the wors

. Way. Sometimes they simply torture

them. And it is knows in this an
that blacks hate to work on blac

owned farms. The workers run away
from there after a very short time,
- He took me to one of Johannes
burg’s suburban shopping centre’.

_ FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20,1987

AZ KEMAVET (Then Like Death)
by Avishai Milstein, Directed and
composed by Shosh Reisman. At
Taavia Tel Aviv. (Later perfor-
Mances stilt to be nnnounced.)

DESCRIBED AS “a poetic struc-
ture of banalities, a musterpiece of
non-communication™ in the Acre
Festival (October 23), Az Ke-
mavet -- a play on the words “as
strong as death™ -- may sound suspi-
Gously like another trite take-off of
inter, or even Beckett. This, how-
ever, is not so, or only as regards
Sructure and style; and only superfi-
Gally at that. For what we have here
δ pure Hebrew theatre, as indige-
Rous in content as it is original and
avant-garde in treatment.
,_ lis (wo main characters are famil-
lat Stereotypes: the pseudo-intellec-
tual, two-a-penny doctoral candi-
date with little but compulsive
te ry and personal ambition un-
Tneath his hat, and the smooth
operator and successful scavenger of
iad Society. The situation goes to
te heart οἵ today's over-acquisi-
ὮΝ Over-ambitious drives, whether
ae or the market-place; it
wt trip deep into Israeli egoscapes.
bald no lack of black humour but
at Sieg up the savage
3 of stire, it parodies the
ends that, for some OF us, are de-
Ν᾽ oe a values, betraying our
» 4nd corrupting our goals.
Clearly this is not just another He-

“gn eeiguage entertainment, ‘but
: tes the most penetrating, sophis-

a and significant works by a
pins Playwright -- Milstein is. only
: anda hot-as-young, but newly-

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Pure Hebrew theatre

Focus on theatre Naomi Doudai

arrived director, to have burst upon
our stage for years.

What was said here about it dur-
ing the Acre Festival - “the only
authentically avant-garde piece...
the only real surreal scream in the
whole festival..." may have misled
many into dismissing the play as an
esoteric, way-out work, aimed at the
“precious” few. Let me correct that
impression with a look at this cre-
ation in terms of the story.

Although, true to the title, the
text is poetry in the most contempo-
tary style, as are much of the subtle
undercurrents in lighting, music and
movement, the impact is by πὸ
means obscure.

Things start with an unexpected
visit, a meeting between a playboy
and a ‘professor, two old Tel Aviv
schoolmates, separated for many
years. An innocent enough en-
counter? It ends in a shattering cli-
max of which, for the sake of the
suspense, nothing more can be said
here. Simple, straightforward, but
never shallow, the camouflaged but
built-in tragic theme runs right
through the play.

IT IS A scruffy apartment in down-
town Tel Aviv. The beach is in the
background. Ji is inhabited by Da-
vid, one-time whiz kid, present

bankrupt, and Judy, the rich but
unpredictable American girl-friend
he is pursuing, probably for her fa-
ther’s fortune. The day is wet and
miserable. Stormy weather threat-
ens, outside and in. Out of the rain
enters suddenly an uninvited guest.
He is Saul, an apparition out of the
distant past. He comes encumbered
with a big bag, and, despite his dotty
talk, some dark, unintelligible pur-
pose. Reminiscing about this and
that, he evades the hidden issue. He
is just back from a conference on
Racine -- the subject of his thesis --
in Strasbourg : ᾿
He keeps skirting the object of his
visit, plunging into the past with
boring anecdotes, that gradually ad-
here into a strange, sinister mosaic.
As the anecdotes accumulate, his
anxiety increases, and with it, a ten-
sion and slow sense of foreboding
that spill out over the stage to envel-
op the audience. —
intermittently prneres ὯΝ πα
stage is another Apartment whe
saber woman -- The Other Wo-
‘man, as it transpires -- clutches ner-
vously at a telephone. [5 she afflict-
ed, abandoned, awaiting bad news?
Her anxiely ancl anguish slowly in-
fect us with a further sénse of omi-
nous foreboding. But not till the
"very last do’ we: know. what they

mean, no more than we can fathom
the build-up of manic banalities and
obsessional antics of the poker-
faced, self-righteous, self-engrossed
professor, or the shenanigans of the
shwitzer David, with his extrovert
vanity and virility, his push-ups and
his zany schemes. 4

THROUGHOUT deadpan con-
fronlations, engendering endless
hilarity, we become increasingly
aware of an accumulating menace, a
sense of something sinister lying be-
hind the recurrent banality, height-
ened by the musical accompani-
ment,

The ultimate howl of despair is in
human, and not in social terms of
tragedy, but for all that it carries a
message of contemporary malaise.
Into this tale of two conflicting hu-
man stereotypes, there is integrated
the role of the weather, rain, wind,
light and shadow, that speak sym-
bolically for the unspoken and sup-
pressed condition of the psyche.
This is taken up musically and wov-
en into compelling patterns of sound
(Yuval Messner, cello) punctuated
by computerized percussion (Gilead
Dubertsky) and orchestrated into a
screaming symphony Οὐ lighting
(Zohar Shiff).

Even stretches of the ‘dialogue,

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much of which is in “Pinglish' us we
used to call Palestinian English, or
the clipped cliches of a strangely
hypnotic Hebrew, serve this same
end stylistically.

AVRAHAM SHUSHINER gives an
unflinching performance as the em-
bittered, singleminded, dry-as-dust
Racine devotee, Yoel Drori's Da-
vid, the boy with the big ideas, the
brilliant smile, ‘and the bogus busi-
hess connections, sparkles against
the other's wilful withdrawal and
wily self-deprecation. Ruthie Char-
lapp, while she had no problem
playing a convincing tourist, being
herself American, nevertheless gave
the part a fetching charm, much mis-
chief, and some pretty fits of fury.
Einat Sela-Weitz’s Abigail demuand-
ed little more than shadow playing,
which she produced with sensitivity.

If there is any fault to find with
the text, it is in the representation
of woman, as the weaker and
succumbing sex. Even though Judy
walks out on the two men, it is in a
fit of temper, hardly as a gesture of
protest against the superego of a
pair of super-macho males. On the
other hand, perhaps the writer is
subtly suggesting that il is the mon-
strous ego-traits of the two which
are responsible for the ultimate
tragedy.

The artistic suceess of this show
must be ascribed to the director,
Shosh Reisman, who with Shosh
Avigail working in an advisory cx-
pacity, makes this, her first effort at
stage direction, so strong anc strik-
ing, that we await her next attempt
with bated breath.

"αὶ heeAi ᾿

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Wt Hallet, the Muni ἢ
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soinpanics on PaWupe. What was
nore sytnificand was that aliheupl
Mimch had lang been associated
wath dance, ilwas ot Wit directors
such as Cranko, Neumeier in Elian
burg and Panoy in Berlin came on
the scene that German ballet pained
internalonal statis.

Cranks set his Kenia dad Juliet
for Munich although he bach oripi-
tadly cn for the Stutggart bal-
lel. (tC remained one of the compi-
y's ΠΕΡ ΟΓ Works, even after
Cranko's death. John Per tn his
Dingraphy of Crauko writes: “Mu-
mich pained more than Jolin did out
of their assucition. ‘They find ihe
immediate benefit ot working with it
tively choteographer aft the: εἰμ ει
Tepute,”

As inal compares, the dancers
are natal! of German origin. One of

Dance Dora Sowden

Ballet from Munich ,°

the two Suliets is tram lls
offers French Re
dae

the
Idea
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to Munich, while Syl

ae Ttadhan Miuurizio Bellezza aul

Polish Waldemar Wolk-Karac-
éowska -τ the tormer.a Lit Seca pria-
cipal, the fatter af
London Festival Ballet and the Ber-
lin Opera Ballet.

ἢ POpera Baller will ap-
ἢν November 26 and

BILD Mahoney, American dane-
erleache video: Cr,
and ballet director, sin israel ter
three weeks teaching tap-dance and
jazz at the Jerusalem Rubin Acade-
my Dance Department,

In a talk te academy students

about her own career and dance
techniques, she described how ste
performed “tap bongie™ in floor
stows + unul she discovered the
summer dunce programmes directed
by Hanya Ffulm in Colorado.

“Thin was my first exposure to
moder dance,” she said. “Before
that [could do only ‘fancy dancing."
For the first time [ learned how to
move through space.” She studied
with Doris Humphrey, José Limon
and Lanis torst.

“Jaze dice didn't exist until Jack
Cole begin to use ethnic dance to
swing rhythms, There were no pel-
vie mavements in jazz dance; that is
disco dance. Hip movements were
lor strippers, Movement of the bat-
tom forward amd back was, howev-
er, mich used!” -- ane she illustrated
delightfully.

She studied with the famous John
Gregory and becanw his assistant,

and [ater with Luigi tor whom she
Wat itl an assistant.

During the 1960s she had her own
studio and tiught the Laban system
of notition at the Juilliard Schoul
for several years. In the 1970s she
tuok a master's degree in media
studies and video dance and has
been making films for cable televi-
sion since 1980. Her programmes
are called Dance On and deal with
dancers’ lives in addition to dance.
“Every show is different,” she said,
“but everyone's story is a story of
survival.”*

During her stay she videotaped a
programme with Galina Panova and
her month-old buby with Joan Klein
acting as “cameraman.”

Mahoney has given graduate
dance programmes at Stanford Uni-
versity, California und has since
been teaching and directing dance
works around the world. After Isra-
ΟἹ she will make a return visit to
Norway and will be back here in the
spring to teach at the Rubin
Academy.

Musical notes Lea Levavi

Tomorrow's audience

EVERYONE complains that not
enough young people are interested
in classical music, and some people
even try to do something about il.
The country’s orchestras, choirs and
soloists give nurrated concerts; and
many other organizations try to do
their part to pring the world of
young people and the world of clas-
sical music closer together.

One orgunization in the forefront
of the fight for tomorrow's audi-
ences in concert halls is Jeuncsses
Musicales, Israel's youth music
movement,

The movement was founded some
30 years ago, but efforts to turn it
into a live project failed at that time.
What did succeed was the organiza-
tion's effort to bring concerts to
schools, an effort that continues ta
this day, with over 2,000 concerts a
year by soloists, small ensembles
and sometimes a full orchestra (the
Israel Sinfonietta Beersheba).

“The kids take the concerts very
well," Tali Yaron, coordinator of

the concert programme, said, “but ,
sometinies ‘teachers. and eee ᾿

project thelr own fears of classical
music ontu their piipils-and are
afraid to invite, say, a solo Violinist

for. teasons ‘ko ‘the violin” will:

serape and scratch and the kids
won't listen." " δὲν

These concerts are successful, she
said, ifthe teachers prepare the chil-
dren in advance, and if the perform-
er(s) not only play or sing well, but
know how to involve the children.

THREE YEARS AGO, Dr, Meir

Wiesel became director of Jeuncases

Musicales and tried aguin to turn it
‘into a teal youth movement, This

time, the effort suceceded,

“We have 5(Ν) members today,
which [ admit isn’t a lot,” he
said. “1 think we could increase
membership if we were better at
selling ourselves, but it's also (rue
that quality is more importunt than
quantity.”

Those members who have the
abilily and desire to perform are
given the opportunity -- in their lo-
cal group, at regional or national
movement activities, or in the com-
munity, by giving concerts at old-
nge homes or hospitals -- but the
emphasis is on educating audiences.

Hayim Oren, coordinator of the
movement's day-to-day activities, is
interested in educating responsible
citizens, not just music lovers. He
puts that ideology into practice by
giving the youngsters (aged 13-18)
as much say as possible in the
planning.

The chairman of ench group gets a
“menu” at the beginning of the
school year, listing possible activi-
ties; mectings with performers and
composers (lists of names provided},
concerts by members at institutions
and darger-scale concerts by profes-
sional artists, outings combining na-
ture and music, and more.

An example of an event which
will involve many different groups,
as wall as non-members, isa spe-
clal screening at the Cinematheque
in Tel Aviv next Wednesday (No-
vember 25) at 4.30 p.m of Don Gio-
vanni. Members: who show their
membership cards will be admitted
for NIS 13; others will pay NES 15.

“The group’ chairman Icts me

know which activities he or she and

"Proceeds Benetit AACE ον
᾿ς ΜΠ Programming —

the: members, have chosen, and |

help them with the technical ar-
rangements,"” Oren said. “I also in-
volve them in budgeting, telling
them how much money is available
for their activities, and helping them
to plan within what is possible.”

Since Israel's Jeuncsses Musicales
is part of an international federa-
tion, there arc also international ac-
tivitics, such as the orchestra creat-
ed each summer from
Tepresentatives of the various na-
tional organizations.

These and other Jeunesses Musi-
cales activities are funded primarily
from the income from concerts at
the schools, with a little help from
the Ministry of Education and Cul-
ture and also the support of Jeun-
esses Musicales's Friends
Associations.

Further information about Jeun-
esses Musicales or its Friends Asso-
ciation from the main office at Tel
Aviv's Mann Auditorium, 03-
202333.

THE ISRAEL Sinfonietta Becrshe-
ba has announced ἃ new initiative in
the effort to interest children in clas-
sical music, ;

Mande possible with the help of the
Beersheba Labour Council, the pro-
ject involves a total of seven visits to
each of the town's schools,

The first subject, covering three
visits, is “Meet the orchestra's solo-
ists,” introducing the pupils to
strings, woodwinds and brass instru-
ments. These visits-ate followed id
an expedition to ‘the concert hali,
whore the pupils hear music reflect-
ing what they've learned. —-

"The second topic, rhythm and col-
our in music, involves two visits to

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the school, again followed by a con-
cert-hall performance. The empha-
sis in this module is on programmat-
ic and impressionistic music.

Lastly, there are two meetings at
the school on folk elements in classi-
cal music, The grand finale will be a
concert which integrates music with
other arts, such as an opera, ballet
or similar “multimedia event.

peek ‘ UVAL in i Hasharon
ers to a young, though slightl
older than school-age, nanichee (ὦ
well as to older people of all ages)
for some of whom, at least, the big
concert-hall is a little intimidating.

“Sitling around a table and eating

and drinking while listening to music:

creates a more informal. atmo-
sphere,” explained Yuval’s director,
Nira Quittner. ae

It started 12 years ago as a club,
where professional musicians came
with scores and played chamber mu-

Sic together, That still happens occa--

sionally, but today Cafe Yuval of-
fers 120 planned concerts a year.
Fora subscription costing NIS 90 for
one person, NIS 150 for a. couple,
the purchaser can attend as many of
these as they wish. Admission to an

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individual concert is NIS 7, NIS 5 for
students and soldiers.

Performers, who all are volun-
teers, include both well-known pro-
fessionals and talented Music Acad-
emy or high-school students.

“The fact that ‘name’ performers
volunteer helps us draw an audience
for the unknown newcomer,
Quittner explained. “Pcople feeb
that if ‘top names’ perform here, the
unfamiliar names must also be real
talent,” ᾿

On December 18 and 19, during
Hanukka, the Yuval Music Assocta-
tion - the non-profit organization
that operates Cafe Yuval —will spon-
sor the second annual Musican (from
the Hebrew words for “music
here”), giving unknown camposers@
chance to introduce their music.

A series of five concerts of Baro-

ue and Renaissance music is to be
ven at the Haifa Museum, the
Jerusalem Theatre's Little Theatre
and Beit Aricla in Tel Aviv, starting

tomorrow (November 21). The first

concert, works by members of the
Bach family, will be performed in
Haifa tomorrow, in Jerusalem rat
Tuesday (November 24) and in Te
Aviv on Wednesday (Nov. 25). °

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NOT HAVING read Siegfried
Lenz's original novel, I am not sure
what point he was trying to mike,
but there isn't much doubt about the
movie version of The Lightship.
This is the classic struggle of human-
ity against evil, the kind of struggle
one might apply to the battle against
Nazism, if that indeed was what
Lenz was referring to. ;

Caspary, ἃ Mephistophelean vil-
lain whose self-admiration is con-
stantly in need of an audience, in-
vades, with the help of two brutish,
mentally disturbed brothers, a light-
ship posted outside Norfolk, West
Virginia, and Captain Miller tries to

ent their taking over the ship.
The time, 10 years after the end of
World War 11.

This is the basic plot, on which
exiled Polish film director Jerzy
Skolimowski embroiders all kinds of
variations.

To begin with, the story is told by
the captain's son, a 17-year-old
whose lack of trust in his parent is
one of the original premises of the
story. Caspary, played by Robert
Duval, has a strong Southern ac-
cent, which could be intended to
reflect some of the decadence and
bigotry of the American South, his
religious streak being very pro-
nounced in his corrupt Bible quota-
tions which are almost his
trademark, =~

His henchmen are violent, boor-
ish white trash, and the similarity to
Hitler's early gangs of hoodlums is,
of course, obvious.

AS A MATTER of fact, everything
here functions first and foremost as

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An allegorical story

an allegory. The lightship, guiding
wanderers in the night, is moored to
one spot, and Caspary's attempt to
telease it from its stability can quite
easily be identified with the wish of
any fanatical criminal, political or
otherwise, to push the world into
utter chaos,

The moral dilemma marring the
captain's war record, to save his
men or win the battle, is the kind of
dilemma for which neither he nor
the rest of the world has a clear
answer.

His determination to fight present
evil in his own way, in order to
resolve that dilenima in his past, is
radically different from the solution
an American film-maker would sug-
gest, as witness, for example, Sam
Peckinpah’s treatment of a similar
situation in Straw Dogs.

The reference to Peckinpah and
the American way is not accidental,
for Skolimowski mentions the same
possibility: fighting evil with evil,
violence with violence. He discards
it for the simple reason that only
those who are trained to live by the
sword can do so. The rest are more
likely to injure themselves before
they do any injury to others.

This is also part of the conflict
between father and son, for the lat-
ter naturally expects heroism, and

when it is not displayed, he is bitter- .

ly disappointed.

t, Audemars Piguet

mithink Padani.

NI.
IT'S A PROMISE

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SKOLIMOWSKI'S style is easily
identifiable here. The hand-held
camera chases the actors through
the labyrinth of the ship, pins them
down in revealing close-ups, whips
up drama into furious pitches and,
with the addition of some disjointed
montage, manages to create a feel-
ing of constant uneasiness.

But there are moments when the
tension drops, and characters, being
too unidimensional to begin with,
cannot compensate for the lack of
action.

Skolimowski disdains realism: he
wants to make sure the audience
understands that it is a metaphor
they are watching. This is most ap-
parent during the storm scenes,
when the ship is rolling perilously,
but the actors continue to retain
complete stability while speaking
their lines.

Even if the reason the storm was
so unrealistically evoked was lack of
funds for more sophisticated special
effects, (this is a movie produced by
a television company (CBS) with
TV handouts), Skolimowski could
not have possibly missed the fact
that Robert Duvall walks out of a
deluge with his clothes completely
dry.

And of course, there is the miss-
ing figure of the mother in the all-
important father-son relationship. If

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this had been a realistic movie, it
would have been absolutely impos-
sible to ignore her. Only if you are
willing to accept this as a purely
symbolical statement does it make
any sense.

WHICH LEAVES us with the ac-
tors, who had to fit into this ideolog-
ical frame of human decency making
a Stund against unadulterated
violence.

On this, director and cast seem to
have had some very serious differ-
ences of opinion.

All that Jerzy Skolimowski was
prepared to talk about in Venice
two years ago, when this film was
first shown, was Klaus Maria Bran-
dauer, who plays Captain Miller.
His dislike of the actor amounted to
an obsession, and he would tell any-
body that, had he been 10 years
younger, he would have belted the
man.

Brandauer, when asked about
this later, said he didn't understand
what it was all about, There were
the usual arguments on the set, but
nothing more than that.

Whatever the trouble was, his
performance certainly doesn't suffer
from it. More restrained and less
flamboyant than as Mephisto or
Redl, he manages to convey every-
thing with a minimum of means,
subtly and intelligently.

POSSIBLY the reanan thitt Skeli-
mowski felt so personally involved
in this specific part and was so un-
willing to give the actor a free hand
stemmed from the fact that Bran-
dauer's son in the film is played by
the director's awn son, Michael
Lyndon. The strained relations be-
tween father and son in the picture
may have had something to do with
real life and demands may have
been made on Brandauer that he
could not have been pleased with.

As for Duval, one of the best
American actors around, he is
pushed into the kind of tour de force
usually entrusted to Brandauer, and
he indulges himself in an orgy of
mannerisms and overacting. It is all
done with superb technique, ta be
sure, but when all is said and done,
the performance is rather thin and
transparent.

Lyndon, playing in one of his fu-
thers films for the second time, ob-
viously fancies himself as a reincar-
nation of James Dean, whom he
tries to emulate in every detail, from
hairdo down to hesitant walk.

He did it once before and he
should now try to show whether
there is anything behind it or not.

Seeing the film again after two
years, it looks even more like a
thought-generating picture, inter-
esting but not really satisfying. That
is mainly because the ideas behind it
are better defined than the charac-
ters carrying them; and even those
ideas were kept to a simple and per-
fectly clear message, as if the pro-
ducer's TV timidity wouldn't stand
too much sophistication. o

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OF ALL the seats that cover the face
of the earth, and there is far more
water than land, none is more fasci-
nating than the (wo seas thal touch
Isract’s shores; the Mediterranean,
first sea ever explored and utilized
for transport by ancient man, and
the Red Sea, sandwiched between
the deserts of Africa and the Arabi-
an Peninsula. ᾿

Although both are small com-
pared to mighty oceans like the Pa-
cifie und the Atlantic, these seas
have played a vital role in the estuh-
Sishment of mass’ dominion over
this planet.

Both of these seas ure somewhat
saltier than any of the other great
bodies of water, for while most seas
and oceans nitintain a constant sa-
finity of about 3.5 per cent, the
Mediterrancan’s salt content is 3.9
per vent amd the Red Sea's 4 per
cent,

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Mediterranean losing sorte 100,00)
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it fluws aut through the Straits of
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into the Mediterranean and, being
lighter, it is layered above the oul-
going salty stratum at the —
Producing a two-way current.

During the Second World Wer,
the German submarines utilized
these currents to enter and leave via
the straits without detection since
they could turn off their motors and
float through the passage.

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16 Greek Compte()
17 Fencing movoment (7)

18 Patterns (7) THE RED SEA evaporates even
19 Keeping from ἴσοι! (7) faster because it has burning deserts
20 Lattien (7) on each side, but this same heat has
23 Henvath (6) helped in the establishment over
24 Make low (δ) time of the magnificent coral ree

that rims the two continents. Thanks

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RDA NO VED EER 20, 1987 ᾿

Chess YitzhakLiss

ISRAEL CHESS champion Nathan e
Bimbeim won the international

tournament in Rumat Hasharon om
which took place last month, gaining

9 points in 11 ge Jeane one
game to Yosef Sabi). . cat competition with 6 points in 7 23.Qa7 Οἱ 24. Bed Rb2 25,
Ronen Lev and Be sie games, beating Eliahu Shvidler and oan ὩΣ a ae Kg? Bae
each won 7 aoe national Muster, D0 Adler with 5.5 points. A prob- Ne229.Be? Re? 30,RI7 Kp 31. ἈΠ
places ee to ae israeli vain Jem-solving contest, also held in the Qe7 32. Qa8 eX 33. Qb7 Red 34.24 ba - Youth Centre,Tel Aviv; Hapoel
Pork aie εὐ 6.5 points each, [ΓΑΠΊΘμΟΓΚ of the tournament, was g5 35. a5 ρή 36, Qb3 ΚΙ) 37. Re3 (David Bratner) Rehovot - Flod Hasharon/Petah Tik-
Stepak wl eerie fe Lasse the “02 by Amir Helman with 24 Qe5 38.Qb7 Kg8 39. Oc& Kf7 40, gauge: they played short games of V8: A%2 Tel Aviv - Hapoel Te! Aviv;
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= ᾿ ahar. 5 " Herzliya; Technion Haifa - Hapoe
lsd ΘΗΝ ἰοψεγὰς leg are ote: Nathan Birnboim has had one THE HISTADRU'T has been orga- τ sphnney rel ohne Rishon Lezion.
tern andreas Huss, came unstuck SUCcess after another this year. Here nizing chess competitions in work ranged recently at Tel Aviv Univer- In the Arzit league the following
eae need lath paining only is a game he won at the recentinter- places for the lust 30 years. Over the sity in honour of Lawyers’ Day. games will be held: Hapoel Petah
is rie Ἂ national tournament in Netanya. last few yeurs, these seem to have State Comptroller Ya'acov Maltz Tikva - Bank Leumi (which went
J pomts, ς ; - BIRNBOIM (white) SEGAL gained added momentum and there was also there, pitting his skiily down from the national league); Ha-
An international youth tourna: (black) Was an atmosphere of excitement ut against the other 15 championship Poe! Hadera (also down from the
ment was held at the same time, 1. d4 NfG2. οἵ 66 3. »3 Bb44,Nd20- the recent match at Shefayim which contestants. national league) - Bikurei Ha'itim B
featuring {srael’s most promising 05, Bg? d5 6. Ngf3ded 7.Qc2Nc6R. was won by the Aircraft Industries A Tel Aviv; Maccabi Ashdod/Tel Aviv
under-18s. Yona Kosashvilly topped Qc4 Ned 9.Qd3 Nd? 10, Bd? Qe7 team who beat Hasnch narrowly THE LEAGUE games for 1987/88 - Hapuel Aircraft Industries, Lasker
the tist with 9 points in HI games, 11.0.0 Rd 12. ΚΙ͂Ὶ Bd2 (3.0u2e5 with 13.5 points. Each of the {4 will open December 5. A record Haifa - Elitzur Petah Tikva.
heating Ya"acov Stysis and Ami Gal 14, dS Bgd 15.063 Bf3 16. BI3 Nb4 compcting groups had four players, ntmber of groups -- 229 -- have reg- The state cup gumes will be held a
with 7 points. 17, Qb3 ε 18. Bg? co 19.d6 RdG none of whom ranked higher than istered. This year, for the first time, week beforehand on November
Avraham Kaldor won the open 20.Rd6 Qd6 21.03 Nd5 22.0h7 RbX = 2070 on the international finess two Arab groups will be competing. 28. Oo

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. The Moaning of 28th οἱ November to the Jewlsh Communities in Latin America
— Then and Now. A study evening In Spanish. Particlpanta: Isaac Arcabi, Abraham
Drapkin (arom), Shinion Farha, Naten Lemer, Rosa Perla Ralcher. Modozator:
Bernardo Trelster,

Sunday, November 22, 1987 at 8:00 pm.

. Screening of the Film "Hester Street.” A story of a Russian family arriving to
America at the turn of the century, Director: Joan Micklin Silver; Actors: Stevan
Koats, Caro! Kana, Me! Howard, The film ts in English with Hebrew subtitles,
Monday, Novembor 23, 1037, at 7:00 pm. :

Tickets: NSB; for mambare of the Association of Friends: NS4.

Firat Time In {eraal
Michel Boujonah -- the French Gomodian
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alized that there was -- the singleton
king of diamonds and the doubleton
queen of hearts in one hand. Slim as
it was, that was his only chance.

So he took it. He plunked down
the diamond ace, and was rewarded
with the sight of the king falling
from the West hand. Now he ruffed
a spade with dummy’s remaining
trump, and cashed the ace and king
of hearts. When West's quecn on
the second round, he was able to
discard his last spade on the jack of
hearts and rack up his contract.

There was not much chance to
succeed, but South took the litle
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an “impossible” contract. Π

(Mike Goldberg!

North-South found themselves in
five diamonds. * At least,” thought
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“no one has doubled,”

The opening lead was the club
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ruffed. Declarer knew he had to ruff
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PANGS OF THE MESSIAH -- By Motti
lemer. About a family living in a Gush
Fnunim settlement in Samaria. Peace
nis between Isracl and Jordan lead to

wots between the members, splitting
taonly the community but the family us

adi. A Cameri Theatre production. (Sher-
wer Thealre, lamorraw through Thurs-
dy, 30 p.m.; Tuesday, 4:30 p.m. also.)

HAYING GAMES -- The Jerusntem En-

fish Speaking Theatre (Jest) presents
itee one-act plays about Him and Her, by

fer, Anderson and Marcus. (Khan,
sanorrow, 8:30 p.m.)

BATHUNT = By Peter Torini. Social satire
isamunicipal garbage dump. (Khan, Tues-
dy through Thursday, 8:30 p.m.)

Td Aviv area

ABANDONED PROPERTY -- By Shulamit
lipid. Directed by Aharon Almog. A
{aneri Theatre production dealing with
fower In the family and the conflicl be-
heen a mother and her two daughters,

{ (Tavita, Sunday, 4:30 and 8:30 p.m., Tues-

thy, 8:30 p.m.)

THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE -
Brecht’s bold treatment of the problem of
foodness and the difficulties of achieving
Ἰαΐος in a wicked world, produced by the
Ihbimah Theatre. With music composed
secially by Shlomo Gronich. (Habimah,
Rovina, tomorrow, 9 p.m.; Sunday
tuough Thursday, 8:30 p.m.)

CHOCOLATE HORSES -- Written and
directed by Moti Auerbuch. ‘The story of 1
joung couple's effort to start a new life
Mer surviving the Holocaust. (Neveh
Trdek, Tuesday, 9 p.m.)

THE CHINESE -- Comedy by Murray
‘Sthisgal, Directed by Niko Nitai. Abuut a
$n aho doesn't resemble his Chinese
hn (OldJaffa, Hasimtah, Thursday, 9

ADOCTOR IN SPITE OF HIMSELI --
Solere's social satire about the stute of
tedicine, written in 1666, set in a present-
hospital in this Khan Theatre produc-
m. Translated by Ada Ben Nachum,
δὰ Dan Ronen. (Hatikva Quarter,
I Audit., Sunday, 8 p.m.; Beit Liessin,
vetday through Thursday, 8:30 p.m.)

DIFFICULT PEOPLE - A_Habimah
te I oection about an English Jew
' visits Jerusalem-and returns home with
eee husband for his sister. The
lonship between the couple revoives
‘ound questions of truth and fies, and how
Men aiyain ihe world. (Habi-
2 , tomorrow, 9 p.m.; Sunda:
ough Thursday, 8:30 pm) :

RAL. By Albert Camus. Hasimtah
‘on. ‘The rise and fall of a Parisian
ipa) (Old Jatta, Hasimtah, Wednesday,

ἢ
tnt ALBUM — By Naftali Yavin.
iy by Hanan Yavin. An ordinary

as the dangers of dally
τ τ loss of values, (Old Jaffa,

night, 10; Tuesday, 9 p.m.)

ΑΜΑΝ HATZAHOV" -- Directed by

Dag omen. Based on the book by

Canes Tossman, Musical direction Miki

tq)” (Ra'onana, Mofel, tonight
) sa

Ν :

ag ise OF MADNESS -- Based on

ιν. Adapted and performed by

‘eh, LL.)

ι
μὰ DONtsus ~ Hasimtah production

na ἜΝΙ
ΗΝ performed by Niko Nitai.
δοίη

8, (Old Jaffa, Hasimtah,

| Ὑ tO self-awareness. (Old
i, tah, tomorrow, 9:30 He

Mena]
lijg AINTENANCE MAN - Comedy by
Yi hy οἰ Γῆς AbOuL a man's relationships
i, ton me and girlfriend. (Beit Lies-
% Monday, 8:30 p.m.; Ramat

ER 20, 1987

afproductions are in Hebrew unless other

“Pangs of the Messiah’ — Sherover Theatre, tomorrow through Thursday. (Haramaty)

Husharon, ‘I'zavta, tomorrow, 9 p.m.; Beit
Dagan, Matnas, Thursday, 9 p.m.)

MIDNIGHT REVIEW = Winner of Acre
Festival Best Actor Award. About the fife
and tensions of 4 Tel Aviv couple, she a
theatre critic, he a member of the security
service. (Neveh Tzedek, tonight, 10.)

MR. DREYFUS - MR. MOLIERE - Writ-
ten and directed by Itamar Levy. A Pari-
sian Jewish actor turns to his audience on
the duy Dreyfus is acquitted, revealing his
life as a Jew and turning the play into a
protest against anti-Semitism. (T.A., Yad
Lebanim, Sunday, 8:30 p.m.)

PAULA -- Monodrama by Motti Lerner.
Directed by Ram Levi, With Edna Flicdel.
The character of Ben-Gurion revealed
through the eyes of his wife. (Tzavta,
Thursday, 3:30 p.m.)

RAT HUNT - See J'lem. (Old Jaffa, The
Israel Experience, tonight, 10; tomorrow,
Sunday, 9:30 p.m.)

SKIN - By Enula Shamir and Noga Eshed.
About o troubled father-daughter rela-
tionship. (Old Jaffa, Hasintah, tomorrow,
9 p.m.)

A ZIONIST WHORE - Sertre’s The Re-,

speciful Prostitute, adapted and directed
by Hagegit Ya'ari, About the meuns and
motives of a racialist in a state divided
between values of liberalism and human-
ism and the suppression of its minorities.
An Acre Festival contestant. (Tzavta,
Thursday, 10:30 p.m.)

Halfa 7
BEWARE MEMORIES! - A satirical
cabaret written and performed by Shimon
fsraeli, based on his experiences while
appearing before soldiers during Israel's
wars. A Haifa Municipal Theatre produc-
tion, directed by Man Toren. (Theatre
Club, Tuesday, Thursday, 9 p.m.)

LES MISERABLES -- A Cameri Theatre
musical production of Victor Hugo's
famous novel about the. Parisian under-
world. Translation by Ehud Manor. With
Shtomit Aharon, Tal Amir, Riki Gal, Tiki

Jerusalem

ISLAMIC JEWELLERY - From the 7th to
the [91h century, including the Harari
Collection, probably the most comprehen-
sive show ofits kindanywhere. TillJan. 20.
(Mayer Institute for Istamic Art, 2 Pal-
mach, Tel. 661291.)

WONDKOUS INDIA -- Art and folk art,
with dressing up for kids anu Inclian danc-
ing and puppet shows, ‘Till Dec. (Isracl
Muscum Youth Wing).

ILTAS LALAOUNIS -- Jewelry inspired by
untique themes und images (Carter Entr-
ance Pavilion, [sracl Muscunn.)

BOAZ TAL -- Photographs (Cohen Pavi-
lion, Israel Muscuun.)

NURIT DAVID — Paintings: the ‘Father’
Series, (Israel Museum.)

JUSTIN LADDA = A new dramatic in-
stallation by well-known New York en-
virontnental artist. Till mid-Dec. (Billy
Rose Pavilion, Israel Museum.)

ETHIOPIAN ARTISTS -- Working in clay.
Till Nov. 27. (House of Quality, 12 Derech
Hebron.)

FRANZ BERNHEIMER - Drawings;
sculptures by young Haifa artist DORON
ELIA. Till Nov. 28. (Nora Gallery, 9
Ben-Maimon Ave. Tel. 632848.)

SILVIA BAR AM - Works on paper; Rami
Gavish - sculpture; Yael Braun -- oil paint-
ings; Isabelle Weisz - landscapes. All
shows open till Nov, 24. (Artists House, 12
Rehov Shmuel Hanagid.) ν

JENNY LUSTIGIER -- pastels and draw-
in may Gallery, Ein Kerem. Tel.
41 ν ;

Dayan, Avi Toledano, Lior Yayni, Albert
Cohen and Dudu Fisher. (Haifa Theatre,
tomorrow, Wednesday, Thursday, 8:30
p.m; Wednesday, 4:30 p.m. also)

WAITING FOR GODOT - By Samucl
Beckett. Haifn Municipal ‘Theatre produc-
tion. (Theatre Club, tomorrow, Sunday, 9
p.m.; Wadi Salib, Monday through Thurs-
day, 8:30 p.m.)

HEDI TARAYAN - Works from 1987.
(Aika Brown Gallery, Yad Harutzim, Tal-
pial.)

VITTL ROSENZWEIG -- Large oil paint-
ings. Till Dee. 3. (Windmill Hotel, 3 Rehov
Mendele.)

JAN MENSES - Jewish symbolism by
Dutch-Canadinn now working in Safad.
(Mayanot Gallery, 28 King George.)

MOSHE GERSHUNI -- From “For My
Brother's Sake" scries. Till Dec. 12. (Be-
zalel Academy Gallery, 68 Yirmiyahu.)

Beersheba

THE ORANGE GROVE - By Yosef Bar-
Yosef. Habimah Theatre production. Ab-
out a widower and his too-late love. (Beer-
sheba Theatre, tomorrow, 8:30 p.m.)

TIM GIDAL ~ Photo impressions of the
Dead Sea, 1937-87. (Fisher Hall, Mishke-
not, Yemin Moshe.)

THE WILD GEESE - By Henrik Ibsen.
The story of two Norwegian families.
(Beersheba Theatre, Sunday through
‘Thursday, 8:30 p.m.)

Others
“HAZMAN HATZAHOV" - See T.A.
(Afula, Mofet, Tuesday, 9 p.m.)

PINHAS COHEN-GAN ~ picta-ideo-
Phonographic paintings. Till Dec. 10. (Gal-

SHLOMO KABAKOV ~“Remnanis From
a Desperate Culture,” photographs.
(American Cultural Centre, 19 Keren
Hayesod.)

THE MAINTENANCE MAN - Sec T.A.
(Rosh Ha'ayin, Mofet, Wednesday, 8:30
p.m.)

Tel Aviv area
THE ALEF DANCE GROUP - Presents
“The Voyage.’ a modern ballet.
Choreography: Sharona Kerpel; music:
Woif Kerpel. (Tzavia, today, 3)

THE ISRAEL BALLET -- Presents a fully-

Tel Aviv area

MARC CHAGALL ~ 100th anniversary of
his birth is marked with an exhibition of the
collection of Marcus Diener, a personal
friend of Chagall. 55 works, mosily
jouaches and watercolours. (Tel Aviv
Fuseum, King Sau! Blvd.)

MENASHE ΚΑΡΙΒΗ͂ΜΑΝ Palating and
i cs ‘ ‘| monumental sculpture of Menashe Kadish-
tamed ty nf alee eo man shown in conjunction with the inau-
Orchestta. Conductor Ze'ev Dorman. Εν of his sculpture “The Sacrifice of
Choreography: Berta Yampolsky; music: | Isaac’ inthe Museum piaze on ΤΙΌψ: 9. (Tel
Tchaikovsky. (Mann, tomorrow through | Aviv Museum, King Saul Blvd.)
Thursday, 8:30 p.m.)
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BERNARD REDER -- Retrospective ex-
hibit of popular expressionist sculptor to
commemorate 90 years since his birth. Till
Dec. 2. (Herzliya Museum, Yad Lebanim.)

NAFTALI SALOMON - Oils, acrylics and
drawings. Till Dec. 26. (Yad Lebanim,
Petah Tikva, Tel. 9223450.)

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lery Gimel, 4 King Shlomo, Tet. 227636.) ᾿

AMOS RABIN -- Recent paintings. Till
Dec. 9. (Bineth Gallery, 63 Ben Yehuda.
Tel. 222907),

THE DATE PALM - Its place in the Middle
East. (Eretz Yisrael Museum, Tel Aviv.}

DOV ON-NER -- Drawings. (Sara Levi
Gallery, 10 Pineles, ‘Vel. 450202.)

MEROSE — Works 1986-87. (Julic M.
Gallery, 7 Glikson, Tel. 295473.)

E, WEISZ — Collages; AHARON KFIR -
ail paintings. (Kibtutz Art Gallery, 4 Nativ
Hamuzalot, Jaffa.)

ZIPORA GENDLER = “Twa τὰ three
dimension” sculpture. Till Dec, 7. (1ere-
Jiyu Museum, Yad Lebanim, ‘lel. 052-
551011).

RUTH SCHLOSS- Works on paper. (Tova
Osman Art Gallery, 100 Rehov Ben-
Ychude. Tel, 227687).

GROUP OF 8 — Paintings following on
exhibition in Berlin 1987 (Shai Danon
Gallery, 42 Rehov Prag.)

ILAN KETER - “Flat works.” (Kibbutz
Art Gallery, 25 Rehov Dov Hoz.)

PAINTING QUOTING PAINTING ~ In
Isracli Art. (Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat
Gan, 146 Rehov Abba Hilte!. Tel. 797717.)

MICHAEL GANS - Oils. From Tues. till
Dec. 9. (Shai Danon Gallery, 42 Frug.)

HOFSTETTER/GERSHUNI — “Artist's
Wall.” Till Nov. 27. (Givon Fine Art, 35
Gordon.)

POLAND'S PAST -- Photus from the
Forbes Collection, Boston. (Muscum
Eretz Yisrael, Ramat Aviv.)

13 ARTISTS FROM EIN HOD—show their
work in Tel Aviy. Till Dec. 6. (Painters and
Sculptors Ass. , 9 Aihuatizi.)

BARRY ILERSHKOWITZ -- Landscupes in
oil pastel, ein and ink. Till Dev. 30.
(American Cultural Centre, 71 tlayarkon.)

PINCHAS COHEN-GAN — “Ten Com-
mandments (Decaloguc).” Paintings. Till
Dec. 4. (Maininad Visual Arts Gallery, 27
Pinsker.)

E. WEISS ~ Paintings. Till Dec. 10. (Tzav- -

ta, 30 lbn Gvirol. Tel. 250154.)

BRURIA PASTERNAK ~ Paintings.
Museum Yad Lebanim, Petah Tikva.

Halfa/North

ATELIER MOURLOT, PARIS - Collec-
tion of lithographs by famous 20th-century
artists [ρον οος in this noted workshop.
(Haifa Museum of Modern Art, 26 Shabtai
Levy, Tel. 523255.)

PINCHAS LITVINOVSKY -- Paintings.
Till end Dec. (Goldmann Gallery, Hai

YORAM LILACH - Oil paintings. Till
Nov. 26. (Memorial Centre Gallery,
Tivon.)

NAOMI NIR-AM ~ “Words and Colour.”
Opening tomorrow. Till Dec. 12. (Artists
House, Haifa, Tel. 522355.)

JAPANESE ART -- Selecled works from
the collection. Opening Nav. 21. (Tikotin
Museum, 89 Hanassi. Tel, 383554.)

HANUKKA LAMPS -- From the artist's
collection, Opening tomorrow. ‘Till Dec.
26. (Mane Katz Museum, 89 Yafe Nof. Tel.
83482.)

ELKA MATASRU - Naive paintings. Till
Nov. 26, (Haifa Cinematheque.)

J. WEXLER ~ Oil paintings. Till Dec. 9.
(Municipal Museum, Naliariya.)

ROLAND TOPOR — Drawings and prints,

(Tefen Open Museum, [ndusirial Park.
Tel. 04-977977.}

) .

festival starts on Mo

METV's Abbott nday afternoon.

Fedarico Garcia Lorca
is remombored in δ
Spanish Evening,
Army Radio, 16.05

EDUCATIONAL TV
8.00 Tetatext 8.08 Keap Fit 6.18 School broarcasts
broadoasia 13.45 Talotaxt
Sense and Sonalbliity {part
2) 18.05 Tho Portlon of the Woek 18.20 A Now Evoning—
Shabbat magazna

ISRAEL TV CHANNEL 2

17.30 Childron’a cartoons 18.00 Film — Portrait of 8
Festival -- Amorican Blucs 20.45
Dacumentary— Explorers (Port 9} 21.36 Pop 2
JORDAN TV (uaofficia)

18.00 Franch Hour 18.30 Nows In Habrow 20.00 Newa
In Arabic 20.30 Laie Expectations 21.00 Weakly
21.18 Againet tho Wind 22.00 News in English 22.20

Lover, Come Back,
Middle East TV, 21.00

the film Nothing S:
Middle East VM, 21.06

{SRAEL TV CHANNEL 2
17.30 Children’s cartoons 18.00 Film -- Les Mii
{Part 1) 19.30 Opora 2~ Carmen 21.00 Pop 2 ame
OEP AMTY cate

artoons 18, ranch Hour 19.30 -
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21,10 Variety Show 22.00 Nows In English 22,20

MIDDLE EAST TV

13.00 Woody Woodpecker 13,30 Bionle 5]
Dennis tha Monacs 14.30 World of the 30 16.00 thoes
Amazing Animals 16.00 NBA 18.00 Wide World οἱ
Sports 18.00 So¢cor 20.00 Wrastling 21.00 Movie:
Lovor, Come Back 23.00 700 Club 23.30 Another Life

18.18 Everyman’s Univaral
13.60 This fe It {repost} 14.

Family 20.00 Son

MIDDLE EAST TV ᾿

43.00 Journey Thru Cartoouland 13.30 Death Vailay
8 14.00 700 Club 14.30 Shano-Up 15.00 Muppot .

ies 18.30 Super Book 16.00 Fragnie Rock 16.30

Aftlemoon Mavia: Ci

Family Ties 19.00 News 20.00 Fall Guy 21.00 Arabic

Movie 22.30 Good Nows

8.10 Morning Sounds 7,08
Choir~ chikiran’s programm:
11.08 True Picture 12.08 Encore 13.05 Parsonal Quee- -
to oalobrate 20 yaare of tha programme
lowa 18.05 Cinema Magazine 17.05 Books
ra hee Peper 20.05 Stories,
ἔ πῖν πι
Hebrew songs 22.08 On Jewish Tradition 22.08 ihe
Making of a State 00.05 Nighi Birds — songs, chal

Hebrew songs 9.08 Η
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acanuts 18,00 Fat Aibart 18.30

Gentlamen, Books 18.08 Ri
Songs and Dances 21

--...ὕὄὕ.......-.............. .

6.05 Morning Sounds 8.30 ©
information 7.07 Morning Supp!
Ing Israel 9.05 Have a Good Tima 11.08 Mama‘ Voice —
spceial ragards to soldlara 12.05 Sandals 14.05 Lands
beyond thy Sass - IndiafS.08 Enoora - Spanish

18.085 Quist songs 8.05 Sordora
jara Doron's programme {repdat}
and radio games 22.08 Smake In Your Eyes 00.08 Yoav
Kutner's Radlo and Trangistor Show

ἢ Your Eyas = songs. 8.08 University οἱ
ment 6.00 Good Morn- information 7 ee Ν
in the Morning 10.05 Music 11.08 Ri

9.08 Songs of Yonatan Golan
Hebrew hita 14.08 Dally Sounds 18.08 Fett’ seve

Habrew songs 17.08 Love gong
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ARMY RADIO FREQUENCIEB

12.05 Hit Songe1 4.05

18.06 Economics.
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Friday

16.30 - Coconuts. Starring
the Marx Brothers and Mary
Eaton, this classic comedy is
based on the famous George
5, Kaufman stage success and
bursts with music, songs and
women.

18.00 - Portrait of a Family -
Visconti. Channel 2.

Saturday

21.00 - Lover, Come Back.
Doris Day and Rock Hudson
star in a film about an adver-
tising man who thinks nothing
of stealing accounts from oth-
er agencies and constantly
tangles with his beautiful
competitor.

Sunday

21.00 - Nothing Sacred. A
woman with a short time to
live is given a good time for
two weeks, but it's really a
publicity hoax. The movie
stars Frederic March and Car-
ole Lombard.

Monday

16.30 - In Society. Abbott
and Costeilo play two plumb-
ers who, with a woman taxi
driver {played by Kirby Grant)

Ben Hacht wrote

EDUCATIONAL TV

8.06 Telctoxt 8.05 Keep Fil 8.16 School δι

14.00 Teletext 14.05 Everyman's University irate

ie bs he ἅμα 15.20 Μιβ. Papperpot 16.49 Keep
lehov Sumeum 18.26 Si

New Evening - live magazine eee One

ISRAEL TV CHANNEL 2

17.30 Children's cartoons 18.00 Film -- Les ΜΙ
{Part 2) 19.30 Muslo 20.00 Documentery -- rabies

JORDAN TV {unfit
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MIODLE EAST TV ἕ

13.30 Another Life 14,

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Fraggle Rock 16.30 ‘Arabi

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lovie 18. ie W.
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(All films are on METV except where indicated.)

are mistaken for guests at a
posh party.

Tuesday

16.30 - In The Navy. Abbot
and Costello find themselves
in the Navy. Costello has hal-
lucinations and nearly wrecks
the entire fleet by playing cap-
tain. The Andrews Sisters join
in the fun.

Wednesday

16.30 - Buck Privates. This
time in the Army by mistake,
Abbott and Costello face life
in a training camp with their
former policeman-enemy as
the sergeant. The Andrews
Sisters are in this film, too.

Thursday

16.30 - Hit the Ice. Abbott
and Costello play sidewalk
cameramen who gat involved
with a gang of bank robbers.
Also starring Ginny Simms.

22.00 - Holiday Treasure. A
young girl befriends a recluse
widower, played by Jason Ro-
bards, Jr.

...and next Friday

16.30 - Lost in Alaska. More
fun with Abbott and Costello.

Night Birds, Bas, υ
Army Radio, 00.05 ν

EDUCATIONAL TV

8.00 Teletext 8.08 Keap Fit 8.185 School 0
14.00 Teletext 14.05 Contact 14.35 . 3
18.00 Family Problems 18.40 Keep Fit 16-
16.00 The Prisoner (part 5) 17.00 A
magazine

ISRAEL TV CHANNEL 2 ὴ
8.30 The Demjanjuk Trial —
dren's cartoons 18.00 Flim 19.30 The Dart
roundup 20.00 Documentary - The Wo Ara
21.00 Pop 2

JORDAN TV (unofficial)

17.30 Cartoons 18.00 Frenc!
Hebrew 20.00 News In Arabic 20.
ra -10 Falcon Crest 22.00 News in En
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MIDDLE EAST TV 4
13.30 Another Life 14.00 700 Οὐ
18.00 Muppet Bables 15.30 Super oat
Rock 16.30 Afterncon Movie: In Soc! wat
Days 18.30 Laverne & Shiricy 49.

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23.30 Another Life

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pal ee νον Men. Robert 2. Leonard’s 1954 film
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18.05 Four in the Afternoon 17.

18,05 In Memory of Marcel Tobias’

20.08 Books Gentlemen, Books (rape

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“hein libraries were originally
e releases. Increasingly, it is
ae lo discover some made-for-
Yodsetions and mini-series.
ἢ RKA company, a Telative
i camer to the market, particular-
"saizes in such American im-
‘while these expectedly in-
ea fair share of the mediocre,
wis aso a surprising variety of
τῳ fare making its appeur-
ἢ Israel via cassette.

“ra such is Lorimar's The Doll-
grof 1983. A lyrical adaptation
iarietie Arnow’s superb novel,
“uskane Fonda, devoid of make-
-dwearing loose, ill-fitting drab
“rats, in what surely must rank
ἀπο πε best roles. She appears
iti Nevels, uprooted from her
‘sudy hills and thrust, with her
idren, into the confusiun of
; War II Detroit.

I. Με, against (he sudden impact
| ssisproduction living, these na-
* hom Americans find them-
{ain an alien, hostile and grey

τι, undergoing a culture shock

profound than that of peasant
is from overseas.

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τάν story is turned into a sensi-

“:evtually-striking tapestry, wov-

zdibe everyday details of a world

- ths all but vanished. For us,

'ina land of immigration, it is
my meaningful. Not to be

MF The Dollmaker is a rare
‘tion gem, then its antithesis,
‘a aother American TV book
-tyion released by RKA is
‘jarring and gaudy costume jewcl-
\Sill there is a big market for
sick tinsel.

Ponies in
Educational TV, 14.06

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canons 18.00 Film 18.30 ;
ἐν The Demjanjuk Trial —
20.00 Documentary ~ The World Around |

20.00 News In Arabic 20.30 Brush Strokes
Ramington Steels 22.00 News in English 22.20

Sayers Mystertes

Ansthar-Life 14.00 700 Club 14.30 Shape-Up
Babies 18.20 Flying House 16.00

6.30 Afternoon Movis: In the Navy 18.00

News 20.00 The A-Team 21.00 Mac-

700 Club 23.30 Another Lile

6.30 ρθη Your Eyes - songs,
Good Morning israel 9.06

7.00 Evening News!
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a video not suitabl

‘Flesh and Blood’ --

Based on Shirley Conran's best-
seller, Lace became a two-part,
four-hour American TV hit in 1984,
‘so successful that a year luter it
spawned Lace I, a 200-minute se-
quel. Both parts are now available,
‘each in a two-cassetie set.

The heroine of this romanticized
rubbish is an international sex-sym-
bol out, with matricidal intent, to
discover the identity of her mother.
In the sequel, she aims her hostile
sights at the father she never knew.
The star-studded cast includes
Brooke Adams, Angela Landsbury,
and Anthony Quayle.

The cassettes were top money-
makers on the American video mar-
ket, and should do well here too,

given the success of late of a number
of multi-cussette melodrama sets for
soap-opera addicts suffering strike-
induced withdrawal symptoms.

HED ARTZI HAS a two-cassctte,
made-for-TV book adaptation of its
own — yet another Alice in Wonder-
land. This time, however, Alice was
turned into a Hollywood-style gran-
diose musical, a fact which in itself
made a lot of critics (urn their noses
up at it, especially as they did the
unfair thing and compared it to Dis-
ney’s animated Alice (which, by the
way. was released to the Israeli mar-
ket by Forum Films not long ago).

But préjudices aside, this is an
interesting and entertaining produc-

Jason Robards in
Holiday Treasure,
Middle East TV, 22.00

Middle East TV, 16.30

EDUCATIONAL TV
8.00 Teletext 8.05
13.30 Yesterday at
14.05 Everyman‘s
the Gnome 18.25
Keep Fit 18.60 Telatext 16.
Side Path 16.20 TV Game t

8.08 Keep Fit 8.18 School broadcasts
rday at the Demjanjuk Trial 14.00 Tafatext
14.320 Family Problems 15.10 Rehov
Sumeum 18.40 Keep Fit 16.00 This Is It—live magazine
17.00 A New Evening ~ live magazine

ISRAEL TV CHANNEL 2

Keep Fit 8.18 School broadcasts
the Demjanjuk Trial 14.00 Teletext
University broadcasts 16.00 David
Doctors and Nurses (part 6) 16.40
.00 Mrs. Pepperpot 16.10.
7.00 A New Evening — live

ISRAEL TV CHANNEL 2
8.30 Tha Demjanjuk Trial
dran‘s cartoons 18.00 Film

Demjanjuk Trial -- live broadcast 17.30 Chil- = live broadcast 17.20 Chit-

49.20 The Demjanjuk Trial—

rang oar .00 Documantary - The World Around Us JORDAN TV (unofficial)

17.30 Cartoons 18.00 French Hour 19.30 News In
Hebrew 20.00 News in Arabic 20.30 Life's Most Embar-
rassing Momente 21.10 indelible Evidence 22.00 News.
in English 22.20 Feature film

MIDDLE SAST TV

13.30 Another Life 14.00 700 Club 14.30 Shaps-Up
416.00 Muppet Bables 15.30 Flying House 16.00 Frag-
Afterncon Movie: Hit the Ics 18.00 Nova
0.00 Scarecrow and Mrs, King 24-00
Highway to Heaven 22.00 Movie: Holiday Treasure
23.00 700 Club 23.30 Another Life

JORDAN TV (unofficial)
17.30 Gatcoce ie

brew 20. jews
Decumentery 22.00 News in English

Franch Hour 19.30 News in
In Arabic 20.30 Valerie 21.10

MIDDLE EAST TV
r Life 14.00 700 Club 14.30 Shape-Up
Babies 15.30 Super Book 16.00 Fraggle
Afternoon Movie: Buck Privates 18,00

18.30 The Campbells 19.00 News
he Wrote 21.00 Head of the Class 21.30
Newhart 22.00 The Equalizer 23.00 70

8.05 Univerelty on the Alr 6.30 Open Your Eyes -- songs,
information 707 "707" 8.00 Good Morning larael 8.05 -

30 Open Your Eyes -- songs,

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6.05 Univer aT Good Morning Israel 9.08

information 7.07 “707" 8.00
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tree ne τὰ Dally sounds 18.08 Festival songs

Afterncon 17.00 Evening Newsreel

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epest)21.00 Mabat —

ἢ the Air (rapeat) 22.08

18.06 Economic Magezine 19.06 Hebrew songs 20.05
Army and Defence Magazine {repest) 21.00 Mabat—TV |
Nawareel 21.30 University on the Air (repeat) 22.06 ᾿

Hebrew hits 14.06 Popular songs 23.08 The 24th Hour 00.06 Night Birds —

18.05 Four in the
18.06 Army end Defence Ma
20.05 Personal Questions {rt
newsreel 21.30 University Οἱ

Popular songs 23.05 The 24th Hour 00.06 Night Birds— 19.05 Radio Radio 20.06 Emergency Call-Up 22.06

Emergency Call-Up 22.08 Coffea Brask 23.05 It all flows ~ Jazz

lion, ‘The zany characters ate pur-
trayed by, among others, Carel
Channing, Sid Caesar, Jonathan
Winters, Patrick Duffy, Sammy Da-
vis Jr., Steve Lawrence, Telly Sava-
las and Ringo Starr.

Just as Alice falls down the rabbit
hole to Wonderland, so in Tren,a
computer whiz (Jeff Bridges) is
sucked into his own equipment and
is pitted in a fight for survival
against the electronic high-tech mar-
veils, with only one of them, Tron, as
his ally.

This Forum Films retcase of the
1982 Disney production takes us,
through the micrechip, for a behind-
the-screen participation in (he video
game wars. Yet despite the very in-
triguing aml promising concep1, the
sum total fails to attain the expected
Disney standard. The special effeets
are amazing, but the script writers
appear to have been unable ta da
their very original idea justice.
Llowever, this unconventional film
is not too awful as 1) minutes af
imaginative escapism.

Another Forum Films offering
from its Disney stock is Jungle Cut,
which also suffers from a
weak script, though compensated
for by breathtaking photogruphy in
Brazil's Amazon. This 1960 true-life
adventure, with a splendid jaguar as
its central character, took three
years to film and makes for fine
family viewing, especially if the fam-
ily includes nature lovers and/or fe-

_ line fanciers.

IN Flesh and Blood, \mperia offers
us a repulsive and sordid view of the
brutal human animal. Over the
years, a number of films have been
made bearing this title, though with
nothing else in common. This one is
from 1985, directed by Paul Verhoe-
ven, lately of Robocop fame.

In this 16th-century yarn, which

fills the screen with more Mesh and
blood than many would care to see,
a young princess is kidnapped by
vile barbariuns. Starring Rutger
Hauer, Jennifer Juson Leigh and
‘Tom Burlinson, this is not family
entertainment by any mens.

For those who can handle Hebrew
subtitles, Imperia brings the 1957
black-and-white Japanese classic,
Throne of Blood -- famed director
Akira Kurosawa's powerful trans-
plantation of Shakespeare's Afic-
beth into medieval Japan. Great,
but no English.

Imperia bounces us back to [his
century, and then some, with the
1983 Eddie and the Cruisers, which
is supposed to be ἃ trip down memu-
ry lane to the 1960s, as a reporter
(Ellen Barkin) seeks to discover
what happened te a rock-group
lender, Eddie (Michael Pare), who
disappenred in 1963, along with
now-vuluable tapes. Eddie turns up
sare the ‘60s and this muv-
ie's script. Nostalgic Baby-Boomers
may nevertheless groove on the mvu-
sic and the almosphere.

For movie nostilgia of a different
sort, plus stunning photography and
exotic scenery, there is the 1946
British classic, Black Narcissus,
which is offered for sale at NIS 29 by
Tel Aviv's Beit Hataklit. Fully de-
serving its Oscars, this simply beau-
tiful film, adapted from Rumer
Godden’s novel, is set in the Hima-
layas, where 8. group of nuns vic
against very dramatic odds. A joy to
the eye and first-rate performances
by Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Far-
rar, and Jean Simmons.

Finally, an update on the wonders

-our prolonged TV strike has done

for video merchandisers. The num-
ber of VCRs imported «luring Octo-
ber went up a whopping | 15,per cent
in comparison with the September
figures! 5

EDUCATIONAL TV
8.00 Telstext 8.06 Keep Fit 8.18 Schoo! broadcasts
13.16 Everyman’e University broadcasts 13.45 Teletext
43.60 Thials It (repeat) 14.38 Sense and Senaibliity (part
3} 16.08 The Portion of the Weak 16.30 A Now Evening—
Shabbat magazine

JORDAN ΤΥ (unofficial) .
18.00 French Hour 19.30 News In Hebrew 20.00 News
In Arable 20.20 Late Expectations 21.00 Weakly Review
21.16 Against tha Wind 22.00 Newe in English 22.20
Supertrain

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beyond the Seas --

Theodore Bikal
sings folk songs,
Army Radio, 16.05

8.30 The Dama penne Ῥ τ oa ree hehe ISRAEL TV CHANNEL 2
dren’s cartoons 18. im 18. 6 Demjanjuk Trial— : 4 .00 Flim 12. 2
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‘MIDDLE EAST TV
13.00 Journey Thru Cartconland 13.30 Death Valley
Days 14.00 700 Club 14.30 Shape-Up 16.00 Muppet
Babies 16.30 Super Book 16.00 Fraggle Rock 16.30
Afternoon Movis: Lost In Alaska 18.00 Fat Albort 18.30
Family Tles 19.00 News 20.00 Fall Guy 27.00 Arabic
Movie 22.20 Good News

Nee ee nen ee ann ene

ne Morning 10.08 Music 11.05 Right Now 12.06 ἢ ARMY
Hebrew nite 74.08 Dally sounds 18.08 Featlval songs | @.08 Morning Sounds 8.30 Opan Your Eyes -- songs,
16.06 Four In the Afternoon 17.00 Evening Neweree! ' Information 7.07 Morning Supplement 8.00 Good Morn-

88 Good Time 11.06 Mama's Votce --
joldiers 12.05 Sandals 14.08 Lends
Jamaica16.08 Encore -- with Tneo-
dora Bikel16.08 Quiel songs 17.08 Distant Contacts --
Jews and ellya emissaries in wastern Europa (pert
1)18.06 Hebrew songs19.06 Sera Doron‘a programme
(repeat) 20.08 Music and radia games 22.05 Smoke in
Your Eyas 00.08 Yoav Kutner’s Radio and Transistor
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PIANO RECI
works by 2th. ry Jewish and i
composers: Copland, Kuchberg, Jacoby,
Haas, Bloch. (Rubia Acudemy, Givat
Ram, Wednesday.)

RENAISSANCE OF THE BAROQUE -
Presented by Michuel Melizer. Cuucert
No. 1: “Buch and Sons." With ‘Thierry
Schorr (Frunce), harpsichord; Michael
Melizer, baroque flute, Works by 15.,
J, and W.E. Bach, Qerusulem
Theatre, Lite Theatre, Tweslay.)

Jerusalem
AFTERNOON JAZZ ~ With Jim Stein.
(Pargod, today, 1:30 till 4:30p.m.)

THE BEST OF SIIOLOM ALEICHEM --
Stories by the famous Yiddish humorist,
performed in English by Michael Schneider
and Jeff Gurner. (Hillon, tonight, 9:31}. )

DANCE FREE -- Express yourself through
dance to all kinds of inusic, Maderators
Dim Gal, Miriam Tron. (ICCY, Emek
Refa’im 12, buses 18, 14, 4, Sunday, 8:31
p.m.)

“HABREIRA HATIV'IT" - In their prog-
ramme “Metoch Kelim Sh'vurin.”’ (Par-
god, tomorrow, 9:30 p.m.) -

JAZZ — With the Plating Band. (Pargad,
Wednesday, 9:20 ρ.π|.}

MUSICAL MELAVE MALKA -- The Di-
alpora Yeshiva Band. (Mi. Zion Centre,
tomorrow, 8:30 p.m.)

PIANO WAR ~ With singer Vivian Bor and
Singer/planist Dunny Kanlevisky. Open
Suturday night and all weck except Friday.
(Knesset Tower Hotel, Wolfson 4, froin
δῦ p.m.)

SHEMTOV LEVY -- Sings his well-Lnown

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Jerusalem

ELEPHANTS...SUMELEPIANTS -- Tho
story of Bil and Bilha, .by the Train
‘fhealre. Ages 3 and above. (Train
Theatre, Wednesday, 10 a.m., for groups
only; 4 p.m.) ᾿

ΤΙΗΣ FISHERMAN AND THK GENIE -
Yosef the puppet, Ronnie and Rochele tell

the story from “A Thousand and One.’

Nights,” allowing the audience a touk inte
the mingigal world of puppet theatre. Ages
frand above. (Train Thoatre, tomorraw, UI.
«ἢ... 12:30 p.m.)

PICTURE BOOKS, PUPPETS AND
SONGS - With Betsy Diamant. Ages 3-6

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ncuur, Bull, Barsanti, Marcello,
+ munanuel Church, 9 Beer Hofman,
tomorrow.)

ISRAEL SINFONIETTA BEERSHEBA -
Sulnists: The Eden-Tamir piano duo.
Works by Britten, Bach/Vivaldi, Saint-
Suens, Schubert, Mazart. (Netanya, Mus-
Kus Mali, Tuesday; Rehevot, Wix, Thurs-
ny.) ὃ

LIEDER EVENING ~ An evening of sungs
hy Grunados, Schubert, Ravel, Mahler. on

songs plus ones from his new album. (Tzav-
ta, lonight, 10)

VERTICAL BLUE - Blues with five musi-
clans and asinger. (Pargod, ‘Thursday, 9:30
p.m.)

WHAT A TRAVEL AGENT WE HAVE --

An evening of song and light patter with

Leib Yuncov and Yitzhak Atius, recount-

ing the Jewish people's 4,000 year global

pa In English. (Moriah Hotel, Tuesdays,
p.m.)

YOUR PEQPLE ARE MINE -- A hilarious
musical comedy, bused on the Book of
Ruth. Written ‘and composed by Gindys
Gewirtz, In Euglish. (Moriah Hatel,
tomorrow, 9 p.m.)

Tel Aviv aren

“BOSSEM”™ -- Isracli top rock band. [Hard
rock from ‘bls und"*70s. (Rock Cafe, 92
Herbert Samuel, Sundays from 9 p.m.)

CORINNE ALAL -- us songs from lar
albums “Motek" and “Forbidden Fruits."
Se Licssin, Upper Cellar, tomorzow, 9
p.m.

DANNY SANDERSON -- Presents his new
song ant skit show, “Rock ‘n' Roll Stand
Up Comedy," accompanied hy four musi-

(in English). (srnel Museum, Youth Wing,
Wednesday, 4 p.m.) με

PUPPETS AND STORY HOUR -- With
Michal Barzel, Ages 3-8. (Israel Museum,
‘Youth Wing, Tuesday, 4:30 p.m.)

STORY HOUR — Menahem Regev reads
stories for ages 6-10. (‘Ticho House, Sun-
day, 4 p.m.) ᾿ ᾿

TelAvivarea ᾿ :
THE AMAZING ADVENTURE -- The
story of a Htile girl's triumph over α wicked |
magichin. With songs, frieks ane magic.
Written aul directed by Goren Agmon.
(Beit Liessin, tomorrow, 11:10. 8. π|.}

Members of the Israel Sinfonietta Beersheba entertain schoolchildren.

the themes of love and death. Performed
by Aliza Chen, accompanied by pianist
Yonatan Zach. (T.A., Yad Lebanim,
fumurrow, Wednesday.)

MORNING CONCERT - The Fourth [n-
ternational Guitar festival: The Pagani
Duo - Adam Kostecki (Poland), violin;
Cursten Petermann (Germany), guitar.
(Taavia, tomorrow, 11:11 a.m.)

cians and two singers. (Petah Tikva,
Heichal, tonight, 9:30; T.A., Beit
Hahayal, Monday, 9 p.m.)

DON'T HOLD ME TO MY WorD -
Hanoch Rosenne’s new pantomime show.
ng Lezion, Tzavta, tomorrow, 10
p.m.

EHUD BANAI AND THE REFUGEES - In
concert, (Belt Liessin, Upper Cellar,
tonight, 10and 11:45: Thursday, Ιῦρ.πι.}

GIDI GOV -- Ina πεν programme, fullow-
ing the release of his album. Accompanied
ty ὯΝ musicians. {Tzavta, tonight, 10 and

“HAMOSAD LE'BIDUACI LEUMI’ —
new comedy with Gadi Yagil and, Molti
Giludi. Directed by Israel Poliakoy.
(Holon, Rina, tonight, 10; T.A., Belt
Elahnyal, tamorrow, 9 p-m.; .Netanya,
Sharon, Thurgday, 9:30 p.m.} Ξ

MEIR ARIEL ~ Sings his songs. (Old Jaffa,
Hasimtah, Monuny, 9 p.m.)

POLISI SATIRE AND HUMOUR ~ With
guest from Poland, actress Lidia Vysocka
of the Vagabunda Theatre, accompanied
on pinno by Alexander Tarsky, (ZOA
House, 1 Frisch, Wednesday, 8:30 P-m.)

“HOPPA HEY!" ~ A new season of τὶ
show based on the TV programme, Songs,
skits, clowns and acrobats. For he whole

Ε ay g (Shahaf Cinema, tomorrow, "

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MY FRIENDS FROMTHE NEIGHBOUR.
HOOD -- Musical theatre with Songs by

Naomi Shemer, Lex Goldberg, others.
Ages 3-10. (Old Jaffa, Hinsimtal. famine

row, I iim.)

RACHELI— Puppet theatre for ages Sand,
abave, Racheli's magical Journey. (Haynr. -
kon Park, tomorrow, [1 a.m., [2:10 Pm.)

THE ROBOCTRICKS' STAR WARS -

Based on the TV series. Adapted and

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- Pow, ILam.)

“NEGINOT” - Concerts and recitals with
new immigrant musicians. (ZOA House, |
Frisch, Wednesday, 8 p.m.)

RENAISSANCE OF THE BAROQUE -
See J'lem. (Beit Aricla, Wednesday.)

- YUVAL CLUB ~ (Ramat Hasharon, Yad

Lebanim, Tel, 401398) Daniel Binyamini,
violin, viola; Milka Laks, piano; guest

I Written by
Yoe! Rippel. With Rippel, Mutzi Aviv and

Dorin Caspi, and Yaacov Tirosh on piano. -

(Hereliya, Daniel Hotel, tonight, 10:30.)

TOM FOOLERY -- Musical satire: an even-
ing of songs by Tom Lehrer translated by
Koby Lurie. With Dori Ben Ze'ev, Ika
Zohar, Natan Natansohn and Rinat Ema-

πιο]. (Beit Liessin, tomorrow, Tuesday,
8:30 p.m.)

TZIPPI SHAVIT FESTIVAL -- The singer!
comedienne in her third festival, a scries of
performances including excerpts from her
shows and records. (Holon, Kiryat Shareit
Matnas, tomorrow, 11:30 a.m.)

UPPER JAZZ CELLAR -- Jazz marathon
with some of Israel's best performers,
including Platina, “Kav 4,” others. (Beli

Liessin, Upper Cellar, Sunday, 7 p.m.-1
am).

UPPER ROCK CELLAR~The rock ἢ roll
band “Hasnif" in “Your Prisoner

Tonight." (Belt Liessin, U Cellar,
Tuesday, 9:30 p.m.) =

“ZAVIOT" -- The jazz quartet plays pieces
from its new album plus. Harold
Rubin, clarinet; Tommy Belman, guitar;

direeted-by Azriel Asherov. (Rithon Le-
zion, Ron Cinema, Monday, 4 p.m.)

SNOW WHITE - Puppet theatre f 3
~ τῶν (Hayarkon Park, ‘Tuesday oa

TALIA SHAPIRA — Plays with so

slorles, (Beit Lic: oy

ssin, Upper Cellar, tomor-

TWO STRANDED ON ONE ROOF - Pan-
tomime, clowning and hu . (T.
Yad Lebanim, Monday, 4 perry Ἂς
Others =. τὰ 2S
GULLIVER'S: TRAVELS’ ~ The “Eretz
.Ujz") Theatre Presents ὦ musical adapts.

singer Eliezra Ayug-Zakov, alto, Wi
Buch, Brahms. (Tonight, 10.) The tye
Triv plays works by Haydn, Mozin
(Tomorrow, 9 p.m.) Nu details iaVailable.
(Monday, 9 p.m.) ᾿

Haifa

THE GITIT CHOIR = Conducted by Shi-
mon Ben-Ami. A festive concert uf songs
af Israel's ethnic Sroups, hased on tradi.
tional tunes, by Seter, Ben-Huim, Aldema.
others; sungs by Israeli composers Braun,
Naomi Shemer, Mark Lavri, others tea
Bueck School, Wednesday.)

HAIFA CHAMBER MUSIC SOLIE1S -
The Israel Quartet plays works by Park,
Mozurt, Ravel. (Wizo Schoul, Hannah
Senesh, tomorrow.)

RENAISSANCE OF THE BAROQUE -
See J‘lem. (Haifa Museum, tomorrew.)

Beersheba

ISRAEL SINFONIETTA BEERSHEUA -
See T.A. (Municipal Conservatory, tonurt-
row through Muntuy.)

Others

FLUTE RECITAL — An evening of lec-
tures, slides and music with artists of Ein
Hod Artists’ Village: Tal Yeeni plays Tele-
mann's Fantasia. Mara Ben-Dav: Reliefs
in Leather. Ruth Cohen: Impressions
{slides). (Ein Hod, Yad Gertrud Kraus,
tomorrow.)

ISRAEL SINFONIETTA BEERSHEBA -
See T.A. (Ashkelon, Yad Lebanim.
Wednesday.)

THE KARR-LEWIS DUO - See J'lem.
(Ein Hashofet, Sunday.)

Mark Smulian, bass; Rubin Hoch, drums.
(French Embassy, tomorrow 9 p.m.)

Haifa

DANNY SANDERSON- Sce T.A. (Techn
ion, Wednesday, 9 p.ni.)

DON’T HOLD ME TO MY WORD - See
T.A. (Beit Abba Khoushy, tonight, 40:15.)

Others

APPLES OF GOLD - Film recounting the
history of the Jewish people. (Eilat.
Moriah Hotel, Wednesday, 8:30 p.m.)

GEORGE AND JEANNIE -- Jeannie Rabin
sings George Gershwin. (Eilat, Philip Mur-
tay, tomorrow, 9:30 p.m.)

TOM FOOLERY - Sec T.A. (Afula.
Mofet, tonight, 10.)

TZIPPI SHAVIT FESTIVAL -- Sec ΤᾺ
(Migdal Ha'Emek, Theatre, Monday, ἘΣ
p.m.; Hadera, Hof, Tuesday. 4 be)
Ashkelon, Rachel, Wednesday, 4:30 p.m.

YEHUDIT RAVITZ—In her new programe
me “Coming From Love,” including» a
best hits and songs from her new ‘Haim.
(Nahariya, Hod, tonight, 10; Gival Ham.
Beit Sharett, tomorrow, 9 p-m-}

J
don of Swift's story, with a cast of 20 an
songs, dances and exciting scenes. slides

and costumes. With children from Swilo |

84 and Ramat Hasharon Dance. Ulpan,

= Directed
Adapted by Shlomo Bar-Shavit. Directé
by nd starring Talk veka (Neal

od, tomorrow, as

Ha'Emek, Heichal Hatarbut, Wednesdsy:
4:30 p.m.) Ἔ
THE KING SLIPPED OFF TO ye ἢ
Musical comedy for the whole a τ
(Netivot, Matnas, Tuesday, 4 ἈΠ

p.m. *
ΠΕ ROBUTRICKS' STAR WARS-Se*

T.A, (Afula, Heichal Hatarbut, Tuesday.
pm Tiberias, ‘Yad Shirt, Wednesday
pm) -.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1987

Matters of taste Haim Shapir

‘avalier, 1 Rehoy Ben Sira, Jerusa-
hag Tel 02-242945. Open nightly,
closed Saturday noon. {No credil
cards.)

A MOMENT | thought I was
ἀν Aviv. | simply had not expect-
ed to sce this type of restaurant,
with an informal atmosphere, a so-
phisticated menu, moderate prices
and a well-stocked bar, in the Holy
Phen 1 took unother look. The
vaulted ceilings and rough stone-
work could only be part of a Jerusa-
lem building. Also typical of the
capital was the fact that there was
none of the usual bustling Tel Aviv
crowd. The restaurant was far from
full and even the young people there
were quict and restrained, as one
learns to be in Jerusalem. ᾿

The decor is simple, with plain
wood tables, ungraced even by place
mats. The service, by a very young
waitress in blue jeuns, was fast and
pleasant. My only objection, and it
is perhaps nitpicking, is that the
knives, forks and spoons were
brought to the table tightly wrapped
in paper napkins, no doubt in some
sort of strange, atavistic, instilulion-
al conception of elegance.

Thad not been particularly hungry

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or because J had taken my first sips
of a giant glass of beer. In any case, 1
fairly dug in to the carrot sticks with
mayonnaise sauce and whole wheat
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Although there were a few hun-
dred bottles of hard liquar on the
shelves of the bar, the selection of

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sels of liver, just barely cooked τὸ
pinkness, served on pieces uf toast
and topped with a multi-coloured
seasoning. One item of the seuson-
ing in particular intrigued me, little
round pink globes, Were they pink
pepperearns or the fruit of the ἸΌΓΗΙ
pilpel tree, which, 1 had been told,
were inedible. 1 suspected they were
the latter, lasted them anyway, und
found them rather nice. ᾿
My companion tried the dish which
s described un the menu as
“yellow paper stuffed with shrimp.’
Luckily, the chef was better at_his
cooking than his spelling. The
shrimp, fairly crowning in a buttery,
lemony, sauce, were large, fresh and
§copious. The pepper itself, barely
qwann, was sweet and tender. Like

= but seemed designed to wreak huvoc
with ihe diner's cholestro! count.
Faced with a wide choice of steaks
for the main course, 1 decided in-
stead to live modestly with veal kid-
ney, which came to the table swim-
ming in a sublime wine sauce. The
kidney, like the liver, had been
barely cooked and thus was tender,
as it should be. ‘
Indeed, the philosophy in the
kitchen seemed to be one of mini-
malism. The vegetubles, fresh not

frozen, carrots. squash and string
beans, seemed to have been only
hriefly dipped in bat butter before
serving. Thongh 1, too, like my
veget:bles crisp, this seemed to be
taking things α little tuo far.

Perhaps the best dish of the eve-
ning was my companion’s chicken
breast in: tarragon sauce, Classic in
its simplicity, it was a beautiful mar-
tinge of the tender, succulent, chick-
en, lots of cream, and the alluring
attraction of fresh tarragon, a com-
bination of sensual magnitude. Like
me, my companion also enjoyed a
potato puff studded with sesame
seeds.

With food like that, 1 could not
help but ponder as to the identity of
the chef, who seemed far more su-
phisticated than the restaurant. 1
was even more impressed when I bit
into my dessert, a rich and stunning-
ly smooth chocolate mousse cake.
Simpler in appearance, but just as
delicious was my companion's wal-
nut cake. :

After such a meal, a cup of mint
tea was almost a medical necessity.

The bill for the two of us came to
NIS 72, far less than one would cx-
pect for such cooking. T can definite-
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The art scene

Meir Ronnen

NURIT DAVID ( blsracl, 195204
won the ἀπο} Muscom’s Kulliner
A A Jour ce Wenning Ist
curly as 28840 The Museuni
presents her latest series of pu
mips, which, walike her prey
choice al images ¢ Chinese collective
arms) took dike contour maps of
achitectuial projects. Porliaps they
are mere contour maps of fer nisl.

David sticks dawn groups of iit:
ches, tellers and bits of cardboard
carn the shape αὐ hands an (oe:
prints and covers the whole with a
siigle menyckrome colour, thir
ensuiiy a falls muninteneus
ty. Very occasiunally, she le,
putolthe plywood ground showing,

aNd aa into ta bes representa:
tive clement. Curator {6} 71].

Thon assigns bo ΠΕῚ work what he
tally “permonal, symboln and ber-

Meanings you woukl never pf il
if you weren't told. Looked at cold,
these pamnitings radi
atall, their formial
values are minimal. The weakness
of this shaw is demonstrated by the
fact that ones more itupressed by
the ingenuity of the curater’s nates
than one is hy the puintings
thentselves.

μιν! was tidied at the Art
Teachers Coll at) Ramat) Hha-
sharan and now teaches there.

ΠΑΝ BERNUEIMIFR, the vet-
chal Neier aelist and teacher, fas
eROUS posture of exh:
wih a youn sculptor hall Bes
age, Derun Ella. Theit evhibits are
supposed ta complement cach other
amd indeed they do. Despite the fact
that ther works are as chbssimil

Be nheimer's kuniliar pencil draw-
ings, worker! up inte full-blown
composiiions, summon up hath

anatomy and music. Just as Bern-
heimec’s dissected “vadavers" τος
semble no koown vertebrate, Elia’s
tern colt vepetation resembles no
known plant. OF particular note are
some small recent: drawings hy
Bernheime also suggest shells
oT vegelation and yet are as inven-

: +! Left: detail of paint-
τα ing by Nurit David.
:, Above: drawing by
’ Franz Bernheimer.
οὐ At right: ceramic
ΤῸ ὦ seulpinre by Doron
τ Elia.

tive as ever, while employing only a
minimum of means. Their clarity
and dish are superb, Elia also keeps
Matters to minimum, even when
using teal branches which “grow”
out of the lena cotta. Well worth a
visit. (Nora Gallery, 9 Ben-Mai-
mon, Jerusalem). Till Noy.28. 0

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The art scene

Marc

Chagall

on
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Angela Levine

TEL. AVIV MUSEUM is marking
the [00th anniversiury of Mare Cha-
gall’s birth by exhibiting some 55
works by the master, mostly water-
colours and gouaches, which com-
prise the fine private collection of
architect Marcus Diener of Bascl,
now shown in public for the first
time in its entirety.

An intimate collection such as
this, built up by a personal friend of
the artist, can perhaps provide the
spectator with far greater insight
into Chagall’s working methods and
the sources of his iconography und
style, than can a larger, more formal
showing of his major works, like the
one mounted at the Royal Academy
of Arts, London, in 1985, the year
of the artist's death.

Watercolours and gouache had a
special function in) Chagall’s art.
Like the Impressionists before him,
who selected waterewlour as the ide-
al spontaneous medium in which to
record transient detiils in eutdour
landscape, su Chagall turned to both
watercolours and) gouache to st
down the inner landscape of his
Memory and imagination: musicians
and clowns, lovers and cows, Flying
high over the rooftops of his beloved
Vitebsk. Some of the paper on
which the gouaches were laid down
are now turning yellow, thus adking
to their interest, for the observer
can clearly discern the places where
Chagall has corrected, in what now
appear as while lines, an outline or
form. Unfortunately, the maximum
potential of this collection which in-
Sludes sketches of peasant life in
Russia, a wide range of “finished”
works covering every period in his
life and studies for some important
paintings from his first Paris period
(1910-14) “Land the Village” and
"Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers")
has not been exploited to its full. To
enable the spectator to compare
Preparatory works with their final
Versions, to trace the evolution of a
Motif or gesture from ils early incep-
tion onwards, the curator should
have considered including, side by
Side with items in the Diener Collec-
Hon, other relevant works of Cha-
gall, in the form of prints or photos.
However, the book-catalogue ac-
Sompanying the collection does pro-
‘Mide copious information through
articles by Jean Claude Marcade
and Mira’ Friedman. Of particular
interest is the analysis of the paint-
ing “Tree of Jesse™ (1960), one of

_ thee oils in the collection and the

first work of Chagall’s to be ac-
quired by Diener, Friedman reveals
= for this painting Chagall secura-
zed a traditional Christian theme,
_ Feplacing the: offspring of Jesse by

εν His own family tree and the “chil-

: Sen" Of his incredible imagination.
el Aviy Museum). 5

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A . pate

Personal
myth,

appeal

Angela Levine

MENASHE KADISHMAN’S mon-
umental sculpture “The Sacrifice of
Isaac" (1982-85) was inaugurated
last week as a permanent fixture of
the Tel Aviv Museum's plaza, the
gift of Rachel and Dov Gottesman.
This event, together with the fe
ing of a supporting exhibition (cur-
ated by distinguished American art-
historian Edward Fry) of recent
paintings and sculpture by the artist,
mark the end of a ten-year period of
intensive activity around the theme
of sheep and sacrifice, a subject first
introduced by Kadishman at the
1978 Venice Biennale, when he pre-
sented live sheep, penned and
stained, as a “living sculpture,” with
himself as their shepherd.

As evident from the subject-mat-
ter of works by other artists now on
special exhibit in the Museum (Lip-
chitz's “Hagar in the Desert” (ca.
1970), a metaphor for the suffering
of refugees; and George Segal’s Tel
Aviv version of the “Akidah
(1973), arlists of this century, partic-
ularly Jewish ones, commonly em-
ploy biblical legend to find parallels
for contemporary events. Even Ka-
dishman’s choice of sheep as a per-
sonal/national myth is not without
local precedent; “Canaanite” artists
of the "40s, among whom Dances
was prominent, drew on ancient leg-
iets of the ‘hunter, the shepherd
and the sacrifice to provide unifying

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Marc Chagall: sketch for "Self-Portrait With Seven Fingers”, 1911. At
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Menashe Kadishman: “The Sacrifice of Isaac”, 1982-5, corten steel (Tel Aviv Museum).

pictorial imagery for the modern
settler and his historic roots in the
land.

Yet Kadishman's choice of sheep
as his primary catalystic motif is a
very natural one, relating back to his
years as a shepherd in a kibbutz,
prior to 1959 and his studies at the
St. Martins School of Art, London.
Starting with this uncomplicated
pastoral image, Kadishman, for
nearly a decade now, has invested it
with ever-increasing layers of mean-
ing, culminating in his original inter-
pretation of the familiar story of the
“Sacrifice of Isaac, expressed first
in drawings and painting. In Kadish-
man’s secularized version, Isaac
dies, since God does not caine to his
rescue. And the Ram, no longer the
victim, takes on the role of gloating
victor, symbolizing the bestial facet
of human nature. ᾿

The recently installed sculpture in
the Museum Plaza expresses this
theme in telegraphic form through
three stark, stylized figures: a group
of mourning women (a classical
theme referred to again in bis puint-

ing “Valley of Sadness" inside the
Muscum), the monstrous, malevo-
lent head of the Ram, and the body
of Isaac on the ground, reduced to a
pathetic facial cypher. For this
work, and for other sculptures with-
in the museum, Kadishman has cho-
sen his materials well: thin, sharp-
edged slabs of Corten-steel which
maich the uncomprisingly aggrcs-
sive character of his message.
Among variations on the theme of
sacrifice are his “‘Pieta," with the
body of Isaac laid out ona sacrificial
plank encircled by the gross body of
the Ram; and “Sacrifice 11" where
boy and animal are fused together,
an image which recalls not only Pi-
casso’s minotaur series, but also spe-
cific works by ‘Lipchitz; in particu-
Jar, his bronze sculpture ‘Bull and
Condor” (1932, Israel Museum),
where, struggling to separate them-
selves, the two figures symbolize a
mad world tearing itself apart.
Bestiality aud brutality also find
expression in Kadishman’s large oil
painting "War" in which the image
of the Ram devouring Isaac is can-

traposed by a scene which Kadish-
man took from real life: that of a
wild dog devouring the body of a
soldier, a theme he also takes up in
his sculpture ‘*Prometheus™ (an al-
legory used by Lipchitz (o depici the
evils of Fascism) where an eagle
feeds on the body of the mythologi-
cal hero who dared to displease the
gods. Finally, in complete contrust
to Kadishman's simple, almost na-
ive, presentation at the 1978 Venice
Biennale, comes his sculpture “The
Shepherd Boy" (1987); a curde fig-
ure elched out in a curved strip of
metal, shaped like an ancient funer-
ary barque, with Ἢ shepherd's crook
plunged through his heart. The
shepherd, no longer artless, has he-
come his own victim.

ALTHOUGH rooted in his personul
and focal experience as soldier, citi-
zen and father, Kadishman’s taut
and totem-like sculptures huve uni-
versal appeal, providing the must
powerful and provocative show al
the Tel Aviv Museum in many a
year. o

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conduct of the clan’s members, Some
episodes are predictable, others are de-
lectable. Vittorio Gassman is great in the
lead, but one is allowed to wonder
whether 5 hasn't been toned down
too much in the process. Stefania San-
drelli, Fanny Ardant and Philippe Noire!
co-star. ᾿

FULL METAL JACKET - Stanley Kub-

_fick's slap in the face for American
myths, such as heroism, in a film whose

first part shows how human beings are

converied into a machines, and

second part displays the use of

these less-than-perfect machines in prac-

Ue. Hard to take and not easy to swal-

low. Matthew Modine is the only well-

name In a cast delivering uniform-

lystrong performances.

GINGER AND FRED — Two aging enter-
tainers, once famous for their Ginger
. Rogers-Fred Astaire imitation, arc
feunited for a New Year's ‘mammoth
show on Italian TV. Fellini at his fiercest,
Caricatures television and ils commer-
cials, but at the same time cringes in fear
Of changing fashions and old age. Giulet-
{a Masina and Marcello Mastroianni are
‘exquisite as the cauple of have-beens.

THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY - The
doubtful benefits of modern civilization

τ Seen from the perspective of a pygmy.

fied by the Coca-Cola he finds in the

: of nowhere. A South African .
«οὐ Somedy by Jamie Uys. Ifnot quite candid ἢ
7 -Samerg, very much in the spirit of it.

‘Rita, Sue and Bob Too’ ~ an important look at British working-class girls.

GOOD MORNING, BABYLON - Paolo
and Vittorio Taviani graduate into the
epics. Two brothers leave their native
Italy at the turn of the century andend up
in Hollywood as sct designers for D.W.
Griffith's Intolerance. Pleasant, beauti-
fully shot and often moving, but less
inspiring than their previous movies.
Vincent Spano and Greta Scacchi are
among the better-known actors, with
Omero Antonutti and Margarita Loza-
no, the old couple from Sa Lorenzo, in
small parts.

HAROLD AND MAUDE - The strange
story of the close friendship, leading to
love, between a boy of 20 and 80-yeur-old
womun. Wonderful acting by Ruth Gor-
don und Bud Cort as the odd couple.

HOME OF THE BRAVE- It isn't exactly
a movie and it probably doesn’t do full
justice to whal Laurie Anderson achicves
in her stage performances. But it isa
tantalizing and fascinating glimpse at the
potentialof this unusual all-round perfor-
mer, as recorded by cameras in several of
her shows. Try it fora change.

JEAN DE FLORETTE -- An obstinate
farmer and his brother-in-law make life
miserable for a hunchbacked tax collec-
tor who wants to return from the city to
his peasant roots. First part of Claude
Berri’s adaptation of Marcel Pagnol’s
novel, remarkably performed by Yves
Montand, Gerard Depardieu and Daniel
Auteuil. The kind of movie to please
everybody.

LADY AND THE TRAMP - One more
reason to believe dogs are nicer than
people. A refined, highly born spaniel is
saved from the villainous plots of two
alley cats by 8 sympathetic mongrel. A
Wait Disney cartoon for the kids which
may please the parents as muuch as it does
their offspring.

THE LIGHTSHIP -- The eternal struggle
of man against villainy. A sanctimonious
gangster and his two goons iry to take
over a lightship, with the captam and his
crew differing about the kind of Tesist-
ance that is to be put up. The Sigitied
Lenz story is adapled and directed hy
Jerzy Skolimowski. with Klaus Maria
Brandaver 85 the caplain and Robert
Duval as the villain. -

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS — Canni-
balistic plant grows in the basement of 8
Skid Row flower shop. Cute allegorical
musical about the threat of fascism thin
on plot, caricatural in characterization,
‘amusing al times. Rick Moranis and
Ellen Greene are the unlikely romantic

leads. Director Frank Oz should have
had more muppets around.

THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS — James
Bond settles a feud inside the KGB, saves
the world once more, and gets a blonde
cellist for a bonus. Timothy Dalton is
almost too human for the part, Maryam
d'Abo lacks the curves of the traditional
Bond girl, and scriptwriters Richard
Maibaum and Michael Wilson seem too
tired to deliver any more surprises. John
Glen directs his fourth Bond.

A MAN IN LOVE -- American superstar
and Eurupean starlet have a brief ro-
mance while shooting an Itolian film
about the life and death of writer Cesare
Pavese. Picturesque backgrounds help
this picture, which desperately {ries to be
more than a cute tear-jerker but rarely
succeeds. Diane Kurys directs, Greta
Scacchi and Peter Coyote play the lovers,
Claudia Cardinale and John Berry get
supporting roles.

MONTY PYTHON -- THE MEANING
OF LIFE - A scries of sketches by the
unruly Monty Python team, intended of
course to prove that fife has no meaning.
Caricaturing everyone from Bergman to
Errol Flynn and everything from La
Grande Bouffe το Oliver, it could offend
anyone if taken scriously; but that's quite
impossible, given its mischievous, mad-
cap style.

‘THE NAME OF THE ROSE - The spec-
tacular adaptation of Umberto Eco's
novel follows the 14th century murder
mystery in a Benedictine monastery, but
misses most everything else. Scan Con-
nery is a reliable medieval sleuth but F.
Murray Abraham is grotesquely uni-
dimensional as a Grand Inquisitor.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud.

9% WEEKS -- The title indicates the
length of the relationship between a
macho stockbroker and a luscious blonde
working In an art galtery. The couple
explore the outer limits of sexual experi-
mentation, with only the cleaner stuff
shown clearly, just what middle-class
moratity would consider bearable out-
rageausness. Mickey Rourke fooks like a
tough guy lost in a tuxedo, and Kim
Basinger looks better than she acts.
Adrian (Flashdance) Lyne direcis a pret-
ty, stylish and totally vacuous movic.

NO WAY OUT -- A remake of The Big
Clack (1948), only more pretentious, A
handsome naval officer with an intelli-
gence background is charged by the
secretary of defence to disclose the
identity of his mistress’s killer, when the

audience knows perfecily well who ἰδ

respunsible. First half looks like soap
opera, second tigtens the thriller screws.
All characters are cardboard, though
Kevin Costner and Sean Young are love-
ly marionettes, Gene Hackman can do
better.

RITA, SUE AND BOB TOO -- Another
impudent look at British working-class
girls, with Siobhan Finnegan and Michel-
fe Holmes as two lusty lasses who would
make even Tom Jones envious. Alan
Clarke directed from a script by 25-year-
old Andrea Dunbar, based on her own
award-winning play.

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE
SHOW -- An outrageous assemblage of
the most stereotyped sci-fi films, Marvel
comics, Frankie Avalon movies and rock
and roll of every vintage, this is also one
of the weirdest, funniest and sexiest films
τὸ bless our shores in a long time.

ROXANNE- An Americanized, updated
version of Cyrano de Bergerac written,
produced and acted by Steve Martin,
with Darryl Hannah as his heart-\hrob.
Putting words before deeds in this age of
Rambo and Rocky is hard to believe,
particularly when the superb irony of the
original is replaced with American
cheeriness.

SHABLUL (Snail) -- The rather confused
story of an Israeli pop star has became a
cult item, thanks to the presence in one
film of Uri Zohar, Arik Einstein, Pupik
Aron and Zwi Shissel, at a time when
they were still a gang undivided by their
religious opinions. Boaz Davidson
directed this picture and Nurit Aviv
signed her first camern assignment before
she left for a brighter career in Paris.

SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT: — Youthful
romp by black director Spike Lee, still in
his 20s and already a sensation after his
second film. A pretty girl with a mind of
her own entertains three lovers, each
destined to fulfil different needs and each
knowing of the others’ existence. Shool-
ing in black and white, with only black
actors, and using frenetic montage, unex-

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each scence consists of only anc shot,
observing characters from a fixed point
and ulluwing the spectator to perceive the
humour of a situation instead of forcingit
on him.

THE UNTOUCHABLES - A hit TV
series in the lute “SOs, now a hit movie of
the '80s, Trensury agent, Elliot Ness, sent
to Chicago to catch Al Capone drafis his
own army when he finds all the cops are
on the gangsters payroll, and eventually
gets him put away for tax evasion. Brian
de Palma combines action and gore with
humour and social criticism. The script is

retty thin but brains are blown carefully
In close-up. Kevin Costner in the lead ts
nice but light-weight next to Sean Con-
nery and Robert de Niro, who are sup-
posed to co-star hursteal the show, not by
doing anything special, just by being
there.

THE WHISTLE BLOWER - The old
parnnoia of secret services as ἢ monstrous
enlity devouring its own children is cer-
tainly justified, but could have been more
excilingly presented than in this limp
thriller improvised around a scandal that
rocked British Intelligence a few years
ago. Michael Caine is the father of a
researcher who mysteriously falls off his
own roof, and he rustles up a whole nest
of vipers when he starts looking for the
reasons. Venerable actors such as Sir
John Gielgud, Jumes Fox and Barry
Foster walk through as well, but director
Simon Langton haso‘ yet made a satis-
factory transition from ΤΝ to movie fare.

WHOOPING COUGH - The failed 1956
Hungarian uprising seen through the
eyes of a 10-year-old buy. Sensitive and
humorous, yet perceptive and intelligent.
Peter Gardos’s film suffers from an un-
even script and disjointed montage, but is
still quite enjoyable and very well played.

WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Personal
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as an adult, Here is her adolescence, even
more likely and impertitent, as she leaves
her home, scandafizes her parents and
assumes her responsibilities at the ripe
old age of 16, Emily Lloyd is magnificent-
ly rowdy and rude in the lead, and David
Leland, who wrote Personal Services,
direcis his own script.

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sick of small-town mentality, pool their
supernatural powers and bring to fife the
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becomes tao ideal, they get scared, and
send him packing. A misogynic affair
played with gusta by Jack Nicholson
personifying the dirty dreams of Cher.
Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer.
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And while wandering from one
Juxurious shop to another in the
Sandton Centre, I kept thinking
about this unique mixture called Yo-
hanan-Johannes Tal-Vinter, the Is-
raeli-Jewish-Afrikancr, whose wife
Vivi was born in Cairo, met him in
Israe] and now lives with him and
their children in Pretoria.

IT have met many Israelis in odd
places all over the world, but the
Vinter brothers’ story’ is about the
most remarkable I have ever heard.

[ΜΕΤ Rabbi Selwyn Franklin at
Archbishop Desmond Tutu's house
in Cape Town. He offered to show
me around the well-known black
township of Cross Roads. I gladly
agreed. Franklin is the rabbi of the
largest Jewish community in South-
ern Africa, Sea Point, in Cape Town.

We drove to the township togeth-

er with a Finnish newspaper editor, ἡ

Simor Nortame. The rabbi, a hand-
some young man in his mid-30s,
speaks fluent Hebrew and is active
in a proup called Jews for Justice,
which operates mainly in the Cape
Town and Johannesburg areas for
the purpose of making friends be-
tween the Jewish and black commu-
nities in South Africa.

Meeting with the rabbi reminded

. me ofa saying I heard once from the

Israeli-Arab journalist, Atallah
Mansur, about being a minority
within a minority within a minority
(an Arab in the Jewish majority, a
Christian in the Moslem majority , a
Roman Catholic in: the Greck-Or-
thadox majority). Selwyn Franklin
is a white in the black majority,
a Jew in the Christian majority,
and in bitter opposition to the Na-
tional Party’s government, as dis-
tinct from the majority of the Jewish
community in South Africa, which
generally supports the government's
policies

He showed is around Cross
Roads. A signboard near the cn-
trance to the tiwnship announces
that “unauthorized” persons are not
Permitted to visit there.

The visit was ἢ real shock for me
and my Finnish ¢olleague. I've been
to the Gaza Strip and the very poor
suburbs of Cairo, and 1 had some
basis for comparison. But what J
saw in the Cross Roads township
had an even stronger effect. Maybe

use, just a few miles south of
township, one can find the very
luxurious neighbourhoods of the

᾿ whites of Capé fTown, surrounded

by trees and beaittiful gardens. The
contrast is too sharp. .
After the first moments of shock,
however; I thought what a foreign
Misitor in Jerusalém might say about
ference between Talbieh or
Rehavia and thé Dehaishe refugee
camp néar Bethlehem, just 12 min-
utes’ ride to the south.
*The contrast is too sharp,” Simor
lama must have written in his
Rotebook, just’ as I did in mine.
Hundreds of thousands of blacks
live there in ugly huts and shacks
t very close to each other, in no
Sort of order. No whites are to be
ee” even the policemen are

Everybody stared at us -- three
Whites in a plushy car -- as if we had
Come from the moon. Jt reminded
Te again ofthe Gaza Strip refugee
Camps, where everybody looks at
the foreign visitor. Except that
there, the looks are rather hostile.

6, the looks seemed more indif-

i ferent, nothing more than curiosity.
. At the township’s centre, there
; ‘tea many mini-buses, loaded with

cal inhabitants driving to Cape
he On the roof of one of the the
μαῖα, a flag of the illegal ANC was
hove. We asked a mini-bus driver
_}0W the authorities allow it there
ind he answered, “Why should they
They know that if they take

ERDDAY, NOVEMBER 10,1987

it down, it will create trouble. They
don’t want trouble here, so they It
the flag wave. Who cares?"
Again I thought of the Gaza Strip
and the West Bank refugee camps.
Would the Israeli authorities ct ἃ
PLO flag hang on one of the roofs
there for more than two minutes?

THE RABBI then took us to a
“non-existent™ neighbourhood, the
newest in the Cross Roads town-
ship. Why non-existent?

Franklin explained that the South
African authorities do not recognize
this neighbourhood, and therefore,
do not provide any services for its
inhabitants. Their original huts were
burnt by their neighbours. The offi-
cial version: internal tribal disputes.
Unofficial version: the huts were
burnt down by government agents
because their owners are ANC
supporlers.

The evacuees live there in booths
that remind one of succot (1 was
visiting there during the Feast of
Tabernacles - “What a coinci-
dence,” the rabbi said) made of tree
branches with blankets tied to them.

As we came closer to the area, it
seemed that the ‘rabbi, who was

(Above) Yohanay Tal-Vinter: regards himself as ‘an Israeli Jew of Afrikan

driving, wouldn't be able to enter,
since one could not see any road
feading inside, He drove straight to-
ward a fruit and vegetable stand,
almost crushing the boxes, But at
the last moment, the stand’s owner
(who probably knew the rabbi)
snatched some boxes away, with the
help of another two men, and the
car made its way along the dust road
inside the tabernacle neighbour-
hood.

“Please get out quickly and start
walking,” said Rabbi Franklin.
“Don't stop anywhere. The place is
full of government informers, and
sinve you are not allowed here, we
may be in trouble if they find us
here.”

We followed his advice. The sight
was “not so cheerful,” as my col-
lengue said in a typically Finnish
understatement. Half-naked chil-
dren smiled at us, asking us in an
unknown African language to take
their photographs. (1 had left my
camera in the car, damn it! Simor
Nortame promised to τη me his
pictures, but he hasn't, so far.)

An old black man, building a new
“tabernacle,” explained in broken
Afrikaans to the rabbi that there

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was not enough room for ail his
children in the old one.

JEWS FOR JUSTICE had supplied
these people with plastic covers
against the rain, and blankets to give
them some warmth,

“Just like your Peace New people
in Israel," Rabbi Franklin said, “We
started our activities inside the Jew-
ish community here with public
gatherings and lectures, meetings
with black activists, but now we also
work in the field.”

Besides the plustic covers and the
blankets, Jews for Justice helped to
set up a big hut here to be used for
the unofficial school in the non-exis-
tent neighbourhvod.

“We try to establish better rela-
tions with the black community in
South Africa,” the rabbi said.
“Most of the Jewish community
here support the government’s poli-
cies, We think they are wrong in

doing so. This is ἃ racist regime, and
a very cruel one. We oppose its poli-
cies and conduct towards the other
races bitterly.

“Why should the Jews, who have
suffered all through theit history
from the same racial discrimination,

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support this cruel and inhuman re-
gime? This is a shortsighted policy.
But some of the Jews here convey
their opinions about this govern-
ment to Israel, culling on your gov-
ernment to continue its support for
the Pretoria government. They are
afraid that if they don't support the
government, it will have ‘very bad
effects’ on our lives here.

“But they arc tolily wrong. In
10, or at the most [5 years, this
country will undouhtedly be ruled
by its black majority. Let us sec then
who had a shortsighted and who a
‘longsighted policy!

“One could say the same thing
about your government supplying
arms, military equipment, airplanes
and military knuw-how to this re-
gime. ‘What will happen to Israc!’s
relatiqns with the new black regime
alter the year 2000? Did you ever
give any thought to that interesting
aspect?”

PROFESSOR Fermin Giliomec,
who teaches histery at the Stellen-
bosch Univesity near Cape Town
and is one of the leading liberals in
the intellectual community of South
Africa, told me that he “respects
and admires” the Jews for Justice's
activities and those of other Jewish
liberals like Member of Parliament
Helen Sussman. “They are much
more daring than the Afrikaner lib-"
erals,” he said, ‘because they are
risking their own necks,"

It is true. Some uctivists of Jews
for Justice were brought to trial,
found guilty and sent to jail, some
for as long as six months and even
two years. The authorities indirectly
tried to pressure the Sea Point com-
munity to break its contract with
Rabbi Franklin and almost succecd-
ed, But the rabbi demanded his full
salary for the whole period of the
contract -- so he is still in his posi-
tion,

. For me, the visit to Cross Roads,
and the meetings with Rabbi Frank-
lin and other members of Jews for
Justice in Cape Town, were the
hightights of my trip to South Afri-
ca. Perhaps it sounds overly sen-
timental, but there, in Cross Roads,
with Rabbi Franklin, | felt proud to
bea Jew. a

Concrete Poem
The Chameleon Dance

. The Minister of Home Affairs,
Mr. Stoffel Both,
- has now disclosed that during
19858:
.* 702 coloured people turned
. white;
: * 19 whites becume coloured;
. * one Indian became white;
κ΄ three Chinese became white;
* 50 Indians became coloured;
* 43 coloureds turned into
Indians;
21 Indians became Malay;
30 Malays went Indian;
249 blacks became coloured;
20 coloureds became black;
* two blacks beciumne “other
| Asians’;
* one black was classified
Griqua;
* 11 coloureds became
Chinese;
* three coloureds went Malay;
* one Chinese became
coloured; :
“ eight Malays became
coloured;
* three blacks were classed as
Malay. 3
No blacks became white,
and no whites became black,

Michael Chapman
University of Natal
Durban

1986

PAGE ELEVEN

“TEE EXEUBITION is part of ἃ se-
ties called “Artists at Mishkenot,”
and in his speech at the opening,
critic Gabriel Motzkin said that the
photographs “show the successful
niarriage Of iwo genres -- (he jour-
nalistic and the artistic." But Na-
hum (Tim) Gidal insists that he is
not an artist.

“An artist adds to nature,” the
photographer explains. “His per-
sonality is an ingredient of his paint-
ing. With my camera, I can only use
what is already there. Art is an ex-
pression of the inner self. Photogra-
phy is a depiction of the outer
world.”

Commenting on the central series
of photographs al the exhibit in Je-
tusalem’s Mishkenet Sha‘ananim,
which are of the Dead Sea, Motzkin
noted Gidal’s “mastery in ex-
tracting literally hundreds of shades
of colour from quite simple cofour
film. This is not a developing trick.
The colours are really there, but [
challenge you not just to capture
them το even lo see them -- when you
go ta the Dead Sea.”

These photographs actually came
about almost hy accident. In 1978
Gidal went with his wife Pia to the
Moriah Elotel in Sdom to (ake the
baths beenuse of an old war wound
that had been troubling hin. He was
al once struck by “ihe nimosphere,
the air, the ever-changing colours.”

Ha did not have to go looking for
them, he explains. They were there,
framed by his hotel window: "It de-
pended on my eye -- whut | was
seeing, when und haw 1 took the
picture, and in what light.”

He returned to the area in 1982
and [987 to take the rest.of the
pictures thut orm the linchpin of his
current exhibition, whieh shows his
development as a colour photogra-
pher from 1937, when his colour
pictures “might just us well have
been in black and white," until the
present, when he: has discovered
what he can achieve with colour.

ALTHOUGH GIDAL rejects the
upellation “artist,” much of his re-
vent work emphusizes the esthetic.’
[t was not always so. In black and
white, he made his nume in the field
of human communications; in his

PAGE TWELVE

OF COLOUR

Veteran photographer Tim Gidal tells
Daniel Gavron about his life in black and

white and colour.

colour photography, the emphasis is
on form and visual communications,

Born in Munich in 1909, Gidal,
who hegan to work for German
magazines with his brother George
(soon afterwards killed in a tragic
motor accident) while still in univer-
sity, was one of the pioneers of pho-
to-journalism, Gidal grew up in a
religious Zionist family and made
his first. visit to this country in 1930.

He became friends with the poet
Haim Nahman Bialik in-Tel Aviv,
took part in a Tassidic wedding,
photographed un Arab riot in Jeru-
salem, and walkéd from Tel Hai in
Upper Galilee to Lake Kinneret,
where he met Lon! Melehett and
was invited to dinner.

His first series of published photo-
graphs from this trip was entitled
Arubs Against Jews; The Probiem af
Palestine, which turdly endeared
him to the Zionist estublishment:
but even then, his fervent Ziunist
belicfs were tempered by his phato-
griphic honesty, :

Critic Nigel Trow described Gi-
dal’s work in the British Journal of
Photography as “characterized by a
visual innocence.” But, he contin-
ued, this did “not mean that it is

‘necessarily simplistic or naive."
Photographs cay be: attached to -
events rther than photographers,
noted Trow. Indeed, for mast of his -
life, Gidul has been recording .

events, ᾿

Back in Europe, Gidal attended a '

Zionist youth camp, where Teddy

Kollek, Yitzhak Ben-Aharon and
Enzio Sereni urged immediate im-
migration to Palestine. From there
he travelled through Eastern Eu-
Tope, experiencing the variegated
richness of Jewish life there, His
photographic record of the trip,
Journey to the Shierl, was published
in a number of Jewish magazines.

Following another two years of
study in Switzerland, Gidal came to
Palestine again in 1935, which re-
sulted in a collection From Dan to
Beersheba, and in a book, Children
of Eretz Yisrael.

Immigrating here in 1936, he con-
tributed to a four-volume work
culled Land of the Bible. Gidal re-
calls that when the editor of this
work camte oni visit, he Managed to.
persunde him that “this was also the:
holy land of the Jews," and that “to
pose dressed-up Arabs annchronisti-
cally in front of biblical sites was an
unethical, religio-political fake."
The editor accepted Gidal's photos
of the Jezrcel valley, Galilee, Jeru-
salem and the kibbutzim. ὁ

During this period, the photogra-
pher also met Henrietta Szold, the
founder of Youth Aliya, and trav-
otled with her “to probably every.
Youith Allya centre in the land and
documented the progress of oung-

τ Slets from their arrival to thelr inte::

gration in new kibbytzim.”

In 1938 he moved to. London
where’ he ἰοίπεα the new Picture
Post magazine, On his way to India

“ip 1940, he was “bombed in the Bay,

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of Biscay and chased by a German
submarine almost as far as the coast
of Brazil." In India, he met and
photographed Pandit Nehru and
Mahatma Gandhi,

Returning to Jerusalem, he

joined the British Eighth Army,

- working as chief photo-reporter for
Parade, which was published by the
British army in Cairo. Wounded by
a German bomb on the island of
Samos, he retumed to the Far East
in 1944, joining Orde Wingate's
Chindits in an airborn campaign in
the Burmese jungle.

In Jerusalem again from 1945-47,
Gidal covered the “illegal” immi-
gration of Jews from Europe, and
toured the country with President
Weizmann. The next 10 years he.
spent mostly in New York, becom-
ing a consulting editor for Life mag-
azine, lecturing at the New School
for Social Research and cooperating
with photographers Robert Capa
and Jerry Cooke on LF. Stone's
best-selling This is Israel, During
this period, he. produced numerous
books in collaboration with his first
wife. ΝΙΝ

Gidal returned permanently to
Jerusalem in 1970, where he became
visiting professor in visual commu-
nication at the Hebrew University, a
position from which he recently
felired. ” . Π ᾿:

AFTER HIS: early experiments in
colour in Jerusalem in 1937, Gidal
Concluded that it was :not suitable

for photo-journalism. Colour, he
felt, was no more than “‘an interest-
ing novelty.” Pictures he took dur-
ing this period were badly printed. It
was all right for family snaps or pic-
ture postcards, he concluded, but
irrelevant to serious work.

Then, in 1950 in New York, he
became entranced with photograph-
ing his young son. “I saw the colours
in his face, his hair, his eyes." He
Started experimenting again with
colour and found that “‘in a certain
light, you can almost reproduce
nature.” ae

Subsequently, travelling in five
continents for a textbook company,
he produced numerous colour pic-
tures but was still dissatisfied with
the reproduction. However, by now
Gidal was intrigued with colour and
wanted to discover what could be
achieved with it. He experimented
with photos of a zebra crossing
which he took four times and super-
imposed in reverse to create a rhom-
boid pattern.

With this and other photographs,
he has aimed to inspire and encour-
age the new generation of Israeli
photographers. He is very worried
about the state of photography here
today, which he says imitates that of
the Americans and the Europeans.

“We are liable to lose our photo-
graphic heritage and our identity as
Israeli photographers,” Gidal
warns. In his view, the photographic
establishment in this country 15
“constipated,” :

On the other hand, he believes
there are numerous excellent young
-Israeli photographers. During ἃ re-
cent workshop which he conducted
at the university, he was enormously
impressed with the young
participants. .

-"T'push them to go their own
way,” he says. “I tell them to be
themselves.” ᾿

Noting that he has lived many
years in the U.S., Germany an
Switzerland, as well as travelling €x-
tensively, Gidal states that his home
is Jerusalem.
το “five here because I am a Jew,

he says simply. “I am a Zionist be-
cause I'm a Jew. 1 always knew that

: [belonged here: This is the centre of

/ my life.” ΄.
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THE LION'S WAY

PAGE THIRTEEN

tat

INDEPENDENCE OF moveniat
af every physically-
penon.

principal factors besides the
of the indivalual’s own har
One isthe y ility and affordalu-
lity of technica) abl, which can in-
clude anything from a simple walk-
ing stick ty an adapted vehicle with a
wheelchair lift-device. The other is
the degree to winch ἃ society designs
its streets and public buildings το
that they are accessible to the handi-
capped.

Sgan-Aluf Gded Pesengzon af the
105 legal department is the volun-
mittes fur
ὦ Roof
ition for the Organizations
andicnpped. Pesensan is in
ἡ position to ualerstund the prob-
tems af this seetor of The population:
He is in a wheelchair. The striking,
combination of his military uniform
and his severe cisubility lends spe-
cil foree {0 his views an aceessib
ty und his αν to) impleme
in (his counter

imul every public service to
the general public has ac-
cess." This means sidewalks, public
felephones, public transport, gov-
ernment offices, educational institu-
tions, cultural and entertainment fa-
cilitics, hotels and restaurants,
places of worship, supermarkets,
and a hast of other pluces, including
their lavatory facilities.

“Society should allow the handi-
capped person to function as fully as
any other person. Society needn't
am an extra burden on him,” asserts

esenzon.

He notes that [sract has a special
obligation in this regurd, not so
much because of its number of dis-
abled soldiers (said to be 28,000 out
of a total handicapped figure of
400,000) or the high degree of dis-
ability they suffer. Rather, he suys,
it is because of the ever-present dan-
pr which hangs over all of us -- “the

nowledge that in almost every fam-
ily, every son, brother and husband
is in the army from age 18 to 50, and
that any day anything could happen
to them.” From this cames the
“right of every disabled fighter to
use public services just as anyone
else.”

Naturally, once the principle of
equality for disabled soldiers is ac-
cepted by the society us ἃ whole,
equal access will he available for uny
handicapped person, regardless of
the source or type of disalvility.

Tn his battle for equal access, at-
tourney Pesenaon lias the liw firmly
on his side “Ὁ at least when il comes
to construction of new public build
iligs.

fu 1.7} the Manistry of Interior
enacted regulations for “speci are
Tangements for the landieapped ina
public building" : trane-
work of the 14
tiun Law. Its definition of a public
building is comprehensive indeed,
includes hindergurtens, old-age
homes, post offices, weeding halls,
synagogues, supermarkets (beyond
4 certain size), cinemas, swimming
pools, and much more.

TO COMPLY with the accessibility
Tegulations, post-1971 public build-
ings are all supposed to have suffi-
ciently wide doorways, lifts or ramps
to all public areas, and toilet focili-
ties suitable for wheelchair occu-
pants und other handicapped peo-
ple; public (clephones, drinking
fountains, and light switches are
supposed to be installed where
wheelchait-users can reach then.
The [97] statule does not, ostensi-
bly, lack teeth: It is supposed to. be
enforced by the municipal authori-

PAGE FOURTEEN

A matter οἱ
mobility

MARKETING WITH MARTHA

ties which control building licences.
Any new building which fails to
comply may be denied link-up to
water and electricity. And any mu-
nicipal authority which fails to en-
force these codes may be fined by
the Interior Ministry.

In addition, the ministry is em-
powered to order that a beilding
constructed before the regulations
were enacted be adapted to allow
handicapped accessibility if techni-
cally possible. (‘The city of San Frun-
cisco has decreed that even histori-
cal buildings must be made
aveessible tu the handicapped. al-
thaugh this may alter their original
architectural character.)

Alt this may be well and good, but
the regulations are still nut
entoreed.

“ don't think you woutd find 10
schools in the whole country which
comply with the special arrange-
ments for the handicapped. Most
synugogucs do nat fit Its specifica
tions, Even some buildings of the
Ministry of Interior itself are not
handicapped-necessible,” Pesenzon
charges.

Here is where his access commit-
tee lakes an active role, Ina number
of key areas (Jerusalem, Tel Aviv,
Haifa, Ramat Gun, ‘Tiberius, Herz-
liya, and the north in general), a
volunteer activist -- a local resident,
usually a person who {s handicapped
~ has taken over the responsibility
of acting as liaison with the local
taunicipalily to cnsure understand-
ing and compliance with the laws.
Pesenzon reports that’ in arcas
where there is such a representative,
ood progress is being madc; now

would like to sec volunteers in

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such problematic places as Eilat, Sa-
fad and Nahariya.

IN TEL AVIV one of the access
committee's own people, architect
Shmuel Haimowitz, was hired four
yeass ago by the municipality as a
paid adviser in charge of special ar-
rangements for the handicapped in
am buildings. Since then,

laimowitz assures me, “No licence
for τι new public building has been
approved in Tel Aviv without its
mecting the conditions for hundi-
capped accessibility." [He checks not
only the original plans, but also the
working blueprints and the final re-
sults before a “completion licence”
(δ μεΐ g'nutr) is insned.

Tel Aviv, says Haimowitz, has in-
turpreted the definition of “public
building™ su that it includes office
buildings ~ an ambiguous point in
the 1971 regulations. The city's rea-
soning is (hat one never knows what

. offices, or perhaps public services,

“may he housed ‘eventually in the
buildings, so that arrangements for
the handicapped should be made in
any case, ἜΝ

There has even been progress in
adapting older buildings in Tet

: Aviv. The Cameri Theatre has add-

ed a platform-type lift for wheel-
chair-users and others who could
Not previously surmount the nearly
dozen steps to the entrance. The
series of high-risu office buildings on
the seafront between Tel Aviv and
Jaffa, some of which even lnck the

obligatory. handrails on. their front”

steps, are currently putting inhandi-
ed access routes. around the
back -- before they get their long-
overdue "completion. certificates”
from City Hall, δ

Unfortunately, says architect
Haimowitz, himself wheelchair-
bound, building laws are not always
sufficient. He says he knows of cases
around the country in which the re-
quired handicapped-accessible lava-
tories in relatively-new public build-
ings have been turned into
storerooms or diverted to some oth-
er unauthorized purpose. In Ra‘an-
ana, he says, it was recently discov-
cred that a child in a wheelchair was
unable to attend ἃ new lucal school
because it was built in contravention
of the 197] regulations.

WHILE TEL AVIV is far from be-
ing ἃ heaven for the handicapped,
there ure other encouraging signs of
progress, One is the gradual re-
placement of crosswalk curbs with
gentle slopes which, if properly
made, will give wheelchair-users a
tremendous boost in independent
mobility. With a conventional
wheelchair, a user -- unless he has
very powerful arms -- requires an
attendant to go up and down curbs
which effectively limits his freedom
to travel the distance from one inter-
section to the next. Even with elec-
{ric-powered wheelchairs, only a
very few expensive, sophisticated
types are curb-climbers.

In policy, Tel Aviv has adopted
the principle that all crosswalk cor-
ners should eventually have slopes
instead of curbs. In practice, only
scaltered intersections have been
adapted, usually where sidewalk re-
placement was in progress anyhow.
(Onc rule-of-thumb js to follow the
new red brick patches of sidewalk to
find the sloping crossways.)

All too often, the new crosswalk

ramps in Tel Aviv have been badly
executed, contends architect
Amiram Harlap of the Israel Build-
ing Centre, whose wife is a wheel-
chair-user, For my benefit, he went
around measuring the new slopes at
intersections, and found that there
were “bumps” ranging from three to
seven centimetres in height at the
point where some of the sidewalk
Tamps meet the roadway.
_ “Such a height differential at the
lip of the ramp constitutes a barrier
which renders it useless or at least
problematic for a wheelchair-user,”
Harlap asserts. (Two centimetres is
apparently the height a wheelchair
can easily manage to go up, and the
maximum height of the “bump”
permitted at the sill of a doorway
classified by law as handicapped-
accessible.)

Sometimes one discovers the in-
congruily of a new slope at one side
of an intersection -- and a regular
curb on the opposite ‘side. This
means that a handicapped person
will get across the strect only to
discover he has no way up onto the
sidewalk, and will be forced to turn
back. Obviously, crosswalk ramps
must be built in pairs.

{ronically, says architect Harlap,
ramps built in driveway entrances
for motorears are often more on lev-
οἱ with the rond-bed than are the
pedestrian ramps. When I tried to
get a reaction from the Tel Aviv
municipality, I encountered won-
drous excuses ranging from, “We're
still learning how. to do this,” to
“Perhaps the slight Tidge is neces-
pai to keep rainwater off the side-
walks.” (The latter seems silly, since
tain would naturally run down the
sloping ramp, not up it.) :

in any case, the efforts to make’

Proper pedestrian slopes at cross-
walks are a welcome change from

the previous misguided attempt of .

Tel Aviv ta put in some short, steep
ramps marked in Hebrew “/a’em u-
ftinok” (for mother and infant).
Theit slope was..constructed at a
Steepness of nearly 35 per cent,
whereas 4 regulation ramp for the
handicapped xin

should be’ approximately 3

10 per cent. (That means that the
ramp descends one metre for every
10 metres it traverses.) I doubt that
the mother-and-child ramps were
convenient for baby carriages:
for wheelchairs, they were uscless.

One frequent complaint from
handicapped people, by the way, is
that the ramp outside the Habimah
National Theatre is too steep to be
very useful. I have not had its slope
measured.

Architect Harlap reserves some
of his sharpest barbs for fellow ar-
chitects.

“Some of the modern office sky-
scrapers in Tel Aviv, including ones
built by Isracl Prize-winning archi-
tects, have exterior stairs without so
much as a handrail” -- a feature
which has been obligatory on any
staircase with more than three steps,
public or private, indoors or out,
since 1970. He points particularly to
the IBM building on Sderot Shaul
Hamelech and to the Textile Centre
on the seafront.

For some of the “walking handi-
capped," the new brick sidewalks
are not ideal cither.

“When will our cities convert to
poured concrete sidewalks instead
of bricks or small flagstones?
Crutches and canes get caught in the
cracks,” attests Eli Zackler, a Jew-
ish Agency administrator, perhaps
best known as chairman of the En-
glish-language drama circle of Tel
Aviv. He was injured in a road acci-
dent several years ago and has be-
come a vocal advocate of handi-
capped rights.
“TRAFFIC LIGHTS for the blind”
were recently installed at 30 cross-
walks in Tel Aviv -- though not with-
out difficulties. These are devices
which buzz when the pedestrian
light is green so that a blind person
knows when to cross the street.
They were introduced through the
efforts of City Councillor Abie Na-
than, who secured their financing by
Bank Discount and the Hasneh In-
surance Company in return for ἃ
year's ΔΟΝΕΙΠΗΠΕ aad a donor's

laque at each intersection.

The locations were selected by the
Israel Centre for the Blind, which
has headquarters at 94 Sderot Ben
Gurion, near the Tel Aviv City Hall,
(tel. δ. 5.48111}). The centre, whose
director is Herzl Muchtar, maintains
an exhibit of accessories to aid the
blind and vision-impaired, which it
sells at cost or government.subsi-
dized prices.

Unfortunately. the special traffic
devices work only in the daylight
hours. After neighbours in the arcas
complained that the ‘round-the-
clock buzzers were disturbing their
sleep at night, the’ municipality
hooked them up to the timer-system
for strect-lighting so that they oper
ate only in the hours from dawi τὺ
dusk.

At least one blind person com:
mented that the lute evening hours
are the most problematic for finding
passersby to ask if the light is green
for crossing, and there are no aid
ful buzzers at those hours. Sul
most of the blind community ρτοίοις
the halfway measure to none at ὅδ
Similar traffic light arrangements
exist at sorne intersections in other
cities. ᾿

An alternative, vibrating system.
which precludes the noise problen:

is used in Japan, and one device i
this type was put up as an ον
ment at an intersection near je
Aviv: University. It utilizes ἃ po!
which is attached to the pedesiriat
light and vibrates when the light ε
green. The blind person must lean
to locate the pole at crossiags- fe
Centre for the Blind, however. vi
ed for the buzzing rather Longer
vibrating system, = ΠΡΌΣ
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- - FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1987

- FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1987

Poets Cornered: 16
Edited by Dennis Silk

Karen
Alcalay-Gut

HOSTAGE CRISIS
“One clear loser in the hostage crisis is Israel, which has gone
down nine points in the ratings."’ NBC, June 30, 1985.

I

“This is the game..." You draw a diagram.

“First, a river” -- ἃ line across the page.

“On this side lives a husband and wife."

You write (H) and (W) on the bottom half.

“On the other side are her lovers," (L1) and (1.2),
who live in view of each other.

(L1) loves (W) madly but (W) is mad for (L2)
who doesn't really care but consents

to sleep with her when she's there.

“There are two ways to cross the river—

a bridge and a boat. The boatman, (B),

for a coin will carry anyone anywhere.

The bridge is free, but from eight at night

until eight A.M. is patrolled by a murderer (M)
who destroys all who try to pass.

“One morning (W) goes to see (1.2).
They spend all day in bed.

She is so besotted

she forgets the time, and it is eight.

“When she runs to (B) she sees
she has left her wallet at home
and asks to owe the money.
(B), a businessman,

does not operate on credit.

Pipl to (L2) she asks

for a small loan, but he — reiterating

what he said in the morning — shakes his head.
He has no tics to her, except, as she knows,

an indifferent willingness to acquiesce. Can

she stay the night, she asks. Fle shakes his head.

“(L1) watches her run down his path, desperate,
hysterical. ‘If you love me at all, please

lend me the moncy for the ride or give me ει roof

for the night!’ ‘Not I — who have watched you two all day—
in love and pain—I will not be further used and wounded.”

“Itis bitter cold, and if she sleeps outside

(W) will surely freeze. Perhaps, she thinks, the
murderer will not come out now. She tries

the only way left.

When she gets to this point, ‘You draw an OO
with your pencil half way across the bridge.” She is killed.

“Now,” you sayin triumph, “‘list
the letters in order of responsibility.”

‘That was years ago and I, a young American, newly wed,
wrote down (W), (at least she should know
to take her purse) then (H), (who could not keep
his wife at home with love, understanding, reason,
- Who did not go to look for her).

‘The lovers were somewhere in the middle
but he who loved should have wanted
tosave her, had an obligation to that love.

‘The one who didn't care should
cared for self respect.

‘The boatman —can you blame a capitalist?
At the bottom of the list, 1 wrote (M).

‘, After all, Chad been evetyone, felt shame
᾿ forall of them, except the man on the bridge.

a Karen Alkalay-Gut was born in England, grew up in the

lates, teaches in Tel Aviv. Cross-Cultural Communications,

ἧς ‘Merrick, New York, has published Mechitza (1986), α chapbook
τὴν Ofher poems, " ee :

The Fleeing Pulicemen.
Pen drawing by Paul Klee.

Anna Garncarska

From THE CHESS FUGUE

1. The Chief Agent

‘The great hall was in an imperial style — cold and heavy. The
Chief Agent was standing downstairs in a perfect black suit. He
was always perfect.

I was standing there too, imperfect as usual,

We were waiting and I was very nervous.

For the Chief Agent everything was all right. He was cool.
He was as perfect and cool as if he were someone or something,
absolutely else. And he was.

He was a cold empty shell filled up by my strained waiting.
He extinguished me putting me into himself.

We stood silent but not quiet in the thrilling wave.

The King was supposed to descend downstairs. And he did
so, although I could not see anybody. What could [ see in the
eyes of the Agent, sitting in his own body?

But I could see him within, To my amazement the King was
there but not myself.

‘The situation was as follows:

There were the jumps of three beings -- myself to the Agent,
Agent to the King, King to the Agent and so on. I could not
jump directly to the King without the mediation of the Agent.

The jumps included the whole person with his eternity in the
continuous winking ofan eye. The frequency of the transforma-
tions was so high that the air around us began to vibrate.

The displacements emitted deep and short sounds. They
concurred mostly with the jumps of the Chief Agent.

Anna Garncarska lives in Tel Aviv, published short stories ir

Polish, switched to English.

Adam Schonbrun

RECOLLECTION OF SABBATH IN JERUSALEM

For Sabbath afternoon let there be a small room
where the last drops of red shine on the yellow paper,
my beard long and covering me as a mask,

no one must know how I arrived here.

WE HELD EACH OTHERS HANDS

Hiding in the shadows of the laundry room
we hold each others hands and adjust our
innocent pajamas. The beer is warm

with the stash safely beneath the bed.

Our Master spies us. He calls us bad,

We both cry.

We flee, we flee, towards where? -

How can we find each other in the lonely madness?
Rebbe bears no grudge, he thinks that we are dead.
Remember God, that Shema we said with tears?

So we kissed. Who can think of anything

as evil as what we did?

In the laundry room, Rebbe knows

we held hands. He is not stupid.

He has connections. Rebbe knows

I came in your mouth, he also knows

I was scared and denied it.

He knows our cocks, not as intimately as I know his.
Rebbe knows our souls are gone

off to the funny-farm, sold for good. Rebbe is gone,
drowning naked in his own backyard,

in my vision tonite, alone.

Two of Adam Schonbrun’s poems were printed in
Poets Cornered: 8. “Recollection of Sabbath in Jeru-
salem’ is reprinted from Toside the Walls (1986), “We
Held Each Others Hands” from a collection with the
same title (1987). Both pamphlets are printed by Ben
Adam Publications, POB 3874 Haifa.

THE JERUSALEM POST MAGAZINE

σις τς
RSET EE YS EE

Ruth Beker

THE NEW WIDOW

She would get up at night,
this night, when everyone
was asleep and had Jong
forgotten her, she would

getup and quickly runin
her stocking fect through
the streets till she got

to the cemetery, walking

distunce really, and she
would dig with her hands
the freshly laid dirt.

It wasn’t hard -- the ground

was damp at night -- and
tuck herself in right

next to him as she had

for forty years and mostly

everyone, yes everyone,

would secretly be relieved

to be rid of such a heavy

and dark inconsojable mourner

and she would finally
sleep well and soundly
without pills or prayers
forever.

MIDI

As the autumn rings its bell

1 rush to close the storm
windows and look down to the
beach, towards the sea, to see

if summer has not left a souvenir,
some sign that she was here.

But nothing. rane h And clear.
Only I know that I loved her and
criedtosechergo. Andshe ~
didn't even turn around, after

all that time together to say
goodbye, she'd try to come again
and see me next year.

That's all right. Who knows if

she'll interest me then. After all,

I've got winter coming soon and

he's much deeper than summer could
ever be. And I know he'll be crazy
about me. We are not fair weather
friends, you know.

Ruth Beker lives in Kfar Shunaryalu.
Her work has appeared in various maga-
zines and anthologics.

Simon Lichman

WHEN THE COLD WAR THAWS.

Superkiss opened the icebox ξ
long enough for the thaw to overtake the world

τ which is a small place nowadays.

And as the Mississippi overran its course
Euphrates swelled and flooded Eden.

“Noah's coming,” called the animals,
“Noah's coming.” ‘Dummies, can’t you [eave
your children, I said, two of a kind.”

“Oh no, not that again.

Ifthey don't go, we don’t go.”

From the top of the Lincoln Memorial
Superkiss reviewed his work

calling to El Salvador in Chinese
“Yeah! [tis good."

Jetlag makes you weary.

Simon Lichman, born in London in 1951, hus lived
in Jerusalem since 1971 with an intermission of some
years in the States. “When the Cold War Thaws” is
taken from the recently published Snatched Days,
Elmar Printers.

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The dramatic aveount of the
events leading up tothe IDF attack
on the Osiris reactor, and the en-
suing political fall-out, is told by
Shlomo Nukdimon in First Strike. A
political correspondent: for Fediut
Abronot, an a former media advis-
er to Begin, Nakdimon draws on his
extensive contacts, and his access to
confidential dacuments, to provide
the reader with an authoritative
behind-the-scenes look ut the di-
pkomatic efforts and military plan-
ning thit preceded the altack on the
Iraqi reactor, He examines also the
implications of the attack on the eve
of Israel's elections, which gave
Likud @ razor-thin victory over
Labour.

ALTHOUGH THE actual air strike
agains! the reactor was a surprise, it
wus preceded by months of [sraeli
diptomatic efforts to stup the Iraqi
nuclear programme. France, which
contracted to build the powerful
reactor ard fuel it with weapons-
grade uranium, was blinded by the
lure of Iraqi oil and petrodollars.
Impelied by the same motives, Tlaly
agreed to deliver “hot celts” enabl-
ing Iraq to convert spent reactor fuel
into plutonium, France maintained
that the purpose of the Iraqi renctor
was non-military, and that there
were adequate safeguards against
the construction of a “bomb,” ‘The
scicnlific arguments mustered by
Nakdimon demolish the notion of an
innocuous “research programme” in
fraq. These arguments, reinforced

IT Τὸ a truism that peuple fihd it

diffiewt to absorb the idea of a
Holocaust, In the vast literature
around this shameful event, it is the
personal experience of individuals
like Anne Frank which to ἃ large
extent succeeds in conveying the
message of man’s unbelievable
cruelty to man.

Such an experience is described in
Surah Elizur's diaries, which she
jotted down us ἃ young woman not
yet 20 years old. She was living then
with her family in‘the small Lithua-
ninn town of Tels(i), sent of a great
yeshiva and of other Jowish educa-
tional institutions, when Hitler in-
vaded Russia. (The region had been ἢ
occupied by Soviet Russia under the
Mololov-Ribbentrop agreement,
which ended the independence of
Lithuania.)

In her story, the Germans are
μην mentioned, though they pro-
vide n backdrop to the tragedy. éTit-
ler's Lithuanian quxilincies and
accomplices, who hated the Rus-
sians, and associated the Jaws with

them, do the work of the Nazis,

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FIRST STRIKE: The Exclusive
Story of How Israel Foiled Irngq’s
Attempt to Get {πὸ Bomb by Shloma
Nakdimon, translated from the Heb-
tew-by Peretz Kidron. New York,
Suinmit Books. 336 pp. $14.95.

Harry Wall

by the existence of the extremely
radical and ruthless regime of Sadam
Hussein, explain why the French
protestations rang hollow in Jeru-
salem.

Unable to persuade the French,
Israel then turned to the U.S, which,
under the Carter administration,
had waged a vigorous anti-nuclear
proliferation campaign. The U.S.,
after all, had branded Iraq a leading
supporter of international terror,
and applied sanctions against Bagh-
dad. U.S. intelligence, according to
Nakdimon, was convinced Bagh-
dad's aim in obtaining nuclear
potential was, indeed, to acquire
arms capability. However, poor
communications between the οἷ -
going Carter and the-incoming
Reagan administrations resulted in a
failure to assess the gravity of the
situation. (Had the Reagan adminis-
tration been aware of the repeated
Isragli warnings, it would not,
observes Nakdimon, have joined in

the world condemnation of Israel
following the attack.)

THE DIPLOMATIC option
seemingly closed, Begin ordered
Preparations for ἃ militury opern-
tion. A former intelligence chief,
Aharon Yariv, appointed the head
of a team of experts convened by
Begin to examine the consequences
of a military strike, advised against
it, Yariv believed the possible risks —
alienating world opinion and Amer-
ican support, disrupting the Mideast
Peace process, and eliciting a joint
Arab military response with Soviet
backing — outweighed the benefit of
delaying an “Islamic bomb.” Yariv's
views were strongly echoed by the
deputy prime minister, Yigael Yadin,
who feared such an action might lead
to u global confrontation between
the two superpowers. Both Yariv
and Yadin, later joined by the milit-
ury intelligence chief, Gidon Saguy,
and the head of the Mossad, were
overruled by Begin, who dismissed
the obstacles in his determination to
“pre-empt another Holocaust.”

The military operation was flaw-
less. Flying low to avoid Jordanian,
Saudi and Iraqi radar, the F-16s,
Stretched to the limit of their flying
distance, ag hay the reactor in a
few seconds. (King Hussein, reports
Nakdimon, personally sighted the
squadron from his yacht, but for
technical reasons failed to warn the

Death in Lithuania

BAYERI U-VAMISTORIM (In
Shooting and in Hiding) by Sorah
Elitzur (Ritou). Published privately
by the author at 5 Rehov Balfour,
Jerusalem, NIS 18.

Alexander Carlebach

(Jew-hatred, of course, was ns onde-
mic in Lithuania as in Poland, the
Ukraine and most Enst-European
countries.)

“The German invasion, and the

retreat of the Russians, gave these
auxiliaries their opportunity. The
Jews were herded together under
inhuman conditions in camps or
ghettos, and exposed to hungor and
disease. Of the Jewish inhabitants of
Tels and its environs, the men were
marched off.to be shot first, the
een and children were left for
inter. ' ae

. Tels were taken

Tt was then that Sarah Elitzur
contrived for herself, her mother
and many others, a refuge with brave
and God-fearing Lithuanian far-
mers. Formore than three years they
led a precarious day-to-day exist-

ence in hiding -- and miraculously
survived. :

QUESTIONS REMAIN. The
accusation that the Holocaust vic-
tims allowed themselves “to be led
like sheep to the slaughter" has been
disproved by records of Jewish re-
sistance, for instance the Warsaw
Ghetto uprising. But it remains true
that the gréat majority did not fight.

Even to them the rabbinic rule
applies: “Don't judge till you have
been in his position.” ἴῃ Sarah Elit-
zur’s account, some 2,500 Jews of

ated, disposed of. Among them must
have been at least a thousand able-

- ‘THE JERUSALEM POST MAGAZINE. ©"

risoner, humili- ;

Saudis and haqis about: fourteen
Kracli jets headed their way.) The
ing uf the attack was governed by
al considerations as well as
hy the wish to inflicL mininsal casual-
ties (one French technician and nine
Iraqis were killed).

WORLD REACTION was, for the
most part, critical of Israel's pre-
emptive strike. In the U.S. the admi-
nistration was divided, with Secret-
oury of State Al Haig, if net suppor-
Ε΄ tive of Isracl’s action. arguing
against punitive measures called for
by the Secretary of Defence, Caspar
Ε Weinberger, und by Vice President
George Bush. The result: suspen-
sion of four F- 16s due fur delivery to
Inrael in a few days (1 move that,
incidentally, provided a partial
ἢ ratiunale for Israel to develop her
f own jet fighter, the Lavi}. The U.S.
8 alsa joined in a U.N. Security Coun-
ΕΞ cil resolution which “strongly conde-
nined” Israel for the reactor bomb-
ΝΕ ing. The U.S. measures, however,
ἢ were not viewed as more than wrist-
slapping, so that Begin’s decision
was vindicated.

The dramatic news of the strike
(leaked by Begin's office over
Yadin’s objections) electrified Israel
as no other [DF operation since
Entebbe. However, it left the
Labour party in a quandary, with
national elections a few weeks away.
To criticize the operation as politi-
cally opportunistic (many Labour
leaders believed it was) would alien-
ate a public rejoicing in the daring
action. To praise the Begin govern-
ment, on the other hand, woukl be
politically self-destructive.

Shimon Peres took the middle
ground; the party congratulated the
IDF on its skill and courage while
questioning the timing of the opera-
tion (Peres said he had secured a
commitment from the newly-elected
Francois Mitterrand to deprive the
reactor of its military potential). No
doubt, the strike in Iraq played a
part in the Likud's extremely narrow
victory in June, 1981.

First Strike, which reads like a
political thriller, is a valuable
account of the scientific, military and
political considerations behind the
attack on the Iraqi reactor. The
closeness of Nakdimon’s position to
Begin's is apparent throughout, but
he brings to bear also an insider's
perspective On an agonizing dilem-
ma faced by Israc! which cannot be
ignored in the nuclear era. This book
should be required reading by inter-
national activists in the campaign
against nuclear proliferation.

Peretz Kidron has made a fluent
translation. a

bodied men, but no hand was raised
in defiance,

We are told of a group of thirty-
five young men (among them the
author's brother) led to their death
by a mere handful of guards, They
kuew they had nothing to lose, yet
didn’t resist. Why not?

OF course, Judaism has a long
tradition of quietism, of passive
heroism and martyrdom. Active re-
sistance was infrequent. This passiv-
ity initself was an act of defiance, for
the subhuman oppressor did not de-
serve resistance. There is a kind of
pride in men and women who go to
their death singing ani ma’amin.

Sarah Elitzur writes her harrowing
‘Teport in crystal-clear Hebrew
rooted in classical sources cultivated
by Lithuanian Jewry. Her attempts
to touch the hurian element in her
Lithuanian oppressors may strike us
8s naive but establish that they could

᾿ Rot destroy our pg our soul.
i

-By publishing lier diaries {and
some poems) recording her experi-
ence, she has rendered a éervice fo
thecollectivememory, . oo

οἱ Such phenomena,

TERRORISTS OR FREEDOM
FIGHTERS: A Tool for the Full
Understanding of Who They Are and
How They Alfect Civilization Today
edited hy Ely Tavin and Yonah Ale-
xander. Fairfax, Virginia, Here
Books, in cooperation with the De-
partment of Education and Culture
of the WZO and the Institute for
Studies of International Terrorism,

State University of New York. 164
pp. NIS 18.

Yohanan Ramati

FREEDOM FIGHTERS engage in
selective forms of violence against
administrative and military buildings
and agents of colonial or dictatorial
regimes. Such violence is used to the
minimum extent possible and civi-
lians are never its chosen targets.

Terrorists deliberately organize
attacks on innocent civilians in order
to shock and intimidate. They use
coercion, intimidation and the des-
truction of human lives and property
to attain political ends.

These definitions, stated briefly in
conclusion, are accurate, but there
are more important reasons to read
this revealing book. In particular the
chapters on “‘State-Sponsored Ter-
torism” (by Ray Cline and Yonah
Alexander), ‘International Terror-
ism and U.N. Responses” (by Dr.
A. Gerson), “Terrorists and Gueril-
las in Africa” (by 1, Lisker), “Euro-
pean Terrorism” (by J. Sundberg)
and “French Democracy versus Ter-
rorism™ (by Professor C. Franck)
marshal the facts to establish some
unpalatable truths:

1, The Soviet Union and its surro-
gates have been arming, training,
and supporting with well-planned
propaganda a wide range of terrorist
movements.
2, The targets of international ter-
Torism have been, almost exclusive-
ly, Western democracies and states
supporting them.
3. The operations of terrorists and
their impact have been aided by
sympathetic treatment in part of the
Western press and media, which
a ald to be due to the infiltration
these latter by persons identifying
themselves with the aims of the ter-
rorists and deliberately trying to help
them.
4, The false belief of some democra-
tic governments (especially in
France) that if some of the terrorists
political demands are met they will
be appedied and cease to behave like
terrorists has been a major factor
promoting the growth of terrorism.
‘When illegal violence pays off, there
will always be more of it.

While Isracli governments have.
by and large, acted more resolutely
against terrorism thah the European
democracies, the attitude of the
Israeli press and media has not been
free of pro-terrorist manifestations,
in the sense of sympathy for at least
some of the terrorist organizations
political aims. This book is a timely
reminder of the dangers implicit in

. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1987

ἰ, "FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1987

AS THE PUBLISHER who made
Watergate a houschuld word und
brought dewn a president, the
Washington Post's: Katharine Gru-
ham has often been a controversial
figure. This hiugraphy created a con-
troversy af its own by exposing what
the author calls mediapolities, the
functioning of the media nol simply
to report but ta influence aud inter-
vene in political events — in elfvet,
creating the news by what they
broadcast or print.

Tracing the history of mediapoli-
tics at the Past, Davis alleges long-
standing connections between key
Post figures and the CIA, among
other governmental bodies, allega-
tions that eventuully cost her a great
deal: Six weeks after its publication
in 1979, the book was withdrawn
from bookstores and destroyed by its
publisher, Harcourt Brace Jovano-
vich, after bitter complaints of in-
accuracy by Graham and her execu-
tive editor, Benjamin Bradlee.

IN THIS SECOND edition, pub-
lished this year, Davis sticks by her
contention that both Bradlee and
Philip Graham, Katharine Graham’s
late husband and former Posr pub-
lisher, as well as others high in the
Post ranks, held intelligence posi-
tions during World War IT and con-
tinued in some fashion to work for
the CIA after the war.

Davis hus unearthed some very
convincing evidence showing that
Bradlee, while a correspondent in
Europe, wrote CIA propaganda
against the Rosenbergs in a scheme to
sue their alleged communist treason
to discredit Wester European com-
munists, who were seen asa threat to
USS. interests at the beginning of the
Cold War.

Bradlee denies ever having had
connections with the CIA.

Philip Graham is shown to hive
been a passionate «nti-communist
who helped create the CIA's “for-
mal programme to recruit and use
journalists...to give foreign peoples

DIPLOMATIC CRIME documents
the misuse of diplomatic immunity
to create an entire genre of inJi-
viduals literally licensed to kill. Itis a
revolting account of such undi-
plomatic felonies us rape; heroin-
cocaine- and gun-smuggling in di-
plomatic pouches exempt from in-
ion; shoplifting, assault, homi-
cide, and all without retribution.
Examples: Two women, at diffe-
Tent times, identified a man as hav-
ing raped them; a foreign embassy
identified him as the son of a diplo-
mat; he went free. A British court
was told that every Pakistan-UK
flight for six months had contained
-heroin, in a diplomatic pouch. Syria
smuggled, in a diplomatic pouch, the
arms used by Abu Nidal to kill a
Jordanian journalist. USSR shoplift-
ing offenders are so numerous, the
Police feel “harassed.” In a promin-
ent fase involving a Soviet “repes-
ter,” the State Department wrote his
« embassy threatening “concrete steps
. lf pilfering continued;” it continued;
no steps were taken.
is may run up bills but
Cannot be forced to pay; the effron-
tery displayed in these cases is of this
Sort; “I have diplomatic immunity.

᾿ + Now, please leave!" They can break
_ leases or damage property with im-

end Bulgarian diplomats left with
. ¥4,300 in purloined antiques, door-
handles, and fixtures, leaving
18,000 in damage. Families have
been impoverished, bodies and lives
ὡς Tulned, people killed, by diptomatic
it-and-runs and drunk drivers;
a factors remain unpunished, vic-
- “ts uncom, . :
: The authors argue that there are
ready too many levels of justice,

. Sted im democracies, to add yet -

KATHARINE THE GREAT:
Katharine Graham and the Washing-
ton Post by Deborah Davis.
Washington, Zenith National Press.
320 pp. $17.95.

Caroline Rody

a sense of America, to ‘alter their
perceptions’ against communism
without violence.”

{t all probably seemed as nice as
flag-waving back then, a way of
helping foreignets to think like
Americans. But these early inst-
ances of mediapolitics were danger-
ous violations of the freedom of the
press: “ΒΥ the enrly 1950s [the CIA]
‘ywned’ respected members of The
New York Times, Newsweck, CBS

and other communications vehicles-
..four to six hundred in all...at an
annual vost of tens or hundreds of
thousnnds of dollars -- there has
never been an accurate accounting.”

DAVIS DETAILS further political
dealings at the Post up until the
Watergate era, including Katharine
Graham’s unshakeable loyalty to
Lyndon Johnson. which kept the
Post supporting the Vietnam War
longer than any other major news-
paper, and the Graham's bad rela-
tions with Richard Nixon, which
Davis considers the fuel behind the
Post's determination to dig up all of
Watergate until it uncovered the
path to the White House door. In
her introduction, Davis writes that
the book's “conceptual centre...is

Licensed to kill

DIPLOMATIC CRIME by Chuck
Ashman and Pamela Trescott.
Washington, D.C., Acropolis
Books. 350 pp. $16.95.

WHEN SOCIETY BECOMES AN
ADDICT by Anne Wilson Schaef.
San Francisco, Harper & Row. 152
pp. $15.95.

CARD-CARRYING AMERICANS:
Privacy, Security, and the National
ID Card Debate by Joseph W.
Eaton. New Jersey, Rowman and
Littlefield. 217 pp. $35.00

Robert Greengard

another: foreign diplomats. They
contend that diplomats who commit
criminal acts must not be immune,
and recommend UN action to eli-
minate thorny problems such as
western diplomats posted to nations
where minor crimes are punished by
beheading. (The U.S., UK, and
other western governments also are
not lily-white in these matters.)
Also documented, though not dis-
cussed, is the number of times claims
of diplomatic immunity by criminals
have been unquestionably accepted
by U.S. police, and the criminals
promptly released. ᾿
Ashmoan and Trescott consider the
causes: “Some diplomats may be-
come so used to the little deceptions
necessary to national security and
international branes ἢ that A
Jose any sense of personal morality.
ἜΣΤΩ cause may be that freedom

from prosecution attracts some
already lacking in personal morality,
who revel in such freedom, and
tarnish the zeputation of the rest. It
hardly matters. If diplomacy must be
forced on some diplomats, revision
of diplomatic protocol seems clearly
imperative.

LIKE OTHER pop-psychologies,
When Society Becomes An Addict is
an all-the-answers system. Anne
Wilson Schaef proposes a parallel
between the addictive individual and
“addictive society,” and blames the
latter for the former. She defines
addiction as “any process over which
we are powerless,” a blanket asser-
tion which could cover multiple
sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, poli-
tical, economic, and natural proces-
ses. This seems fuzzy thinking.

Schaef observes, also, that “An
addiction dulls and distorts our sen-
sory input. We do not receive in-
formation clearly (or) process it
accurately (or) respond to it with
precision.” She forgets that assorted
paranoias, undiagnosed homosex-
uality, mistaken gender identity,
worry over grades-love-health, and
‘so on, can also interfere. with a
victim’s data-processing.

These and other examples foster a
charge against this book of impreci-
sion, murkiness, over-
generalization, and indecipherable
linkages between allegedly telated
abstractions. Schaef is a Ph.D. but

her Alma’ Mater and professional .

affiliations in psychology are not
mentioned. She footnotes advances

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the question: Could Katharine Gra-
hun and Ben Bradlee have been i
the position to end the presidency ol
Richard Nixon by chance. or wits
that ability the τον ΜῈ} of sumething +
deeply routed and systematic?”
And. indeed, she demonstrates the
existence al the Post of long-
standing overly dose rekuion. with
the ufficial centies ef power in
Washington,

Philip Graham ant his: editors
held back any news that the White
House or the CIA didn't want
printed, stressed what a president
liked. made deals to modify their
news in return for chunges in offi-
cials’ policies, editorialized against
anti-government dissent, and gener-
ally blurred the line between the
ruling administration and the press,
which Americans had come to count
on us a fundamental safeguard of
their freedom.

Davis shows that Katharine Gra-
ham continued on this path during
Watergite, using inside connections
(the famous “Deep Throat” whose
identity is hypothesized here: un
intelligence man with whem both
Braulee and his reporter Bob Wood-
ward had had professional relations
when they worked fur intelligence)
to influence the presidency as only a
profoundly involved and connected
investigatory body could do.

The point is hat The New York
Times could never have uncovered
Watergate; it was an insider affair,
perpetrated by one group of
Washington political operators and
revealed by another - who worked
for the Past.

EVEN AFTER reading all, one still
isn't 100 per cent convinced that
Deborah Davis is on target and her
esteemed subjects are lying. Gra-
ham and Bradlee continue to reject
the book in its entirety in this second
edition. I would believe Davis more
if there were not a certain detectable
nastiness in her tone, a tendency
towards mockery that may hearken

in scientific theory (co-dependence,
paradigm shift) as if they supported
her addictive society hypothesis but
apparently none of her sixteen en-
dorsers is from the scientific com-
munity.

She writes, “The white-male saci-
ety" - Feminism greatly informs her
thinking -- “thinks it understands
everything. New and different in-
formation can't be tolerated.” Her
notion of the addictiveness of sovie-
ty, she implies, is the “new and
different thing. Yet most projec-
tors of fresh systems explain why the
“authorities” reject them: they nev-
er concede that the new system is
flawed, She touches on many in-
teresting ideas but even if her crown-
ing concept were somehow to prove
valid, its acceptance would be com-

‘promised by questionable endorse-
ments, poor organization, tangled
syntax and ill-defined terms.

THE U.S. has a problem with accu-
mulating dossiers on private indi-
viduals. The need for information,
and virtually logarithmic increases
recently in computers’ ability to
handle it, render the situation acute.
Card-Carrying Americans is neces-
sary reading for citizens concerned
about civil liberty and an underworld
running amok. It poses the possibil-
ity of a permanent, national,
tamper-resistant TD card, manda-
tory elsewhere but not in the U.S., a
country where forged documents
can be used by terrorists, Mafia, and
othér criminals, more easily than
anywhere else. (Estimated criminal

share of the U.S. economy in 1983:

$124 billion -- untaxed. } -

ID cards are like cars. Used by
criminals, they are a luxury. few

would do without. Privacy violations

ORES TED
back toherdays at the Filta

for whom she investigated New
York politics.

To her credit the author dacs not
exploit vome extra-miurital sexual
Inatlers that could easily παν been
averdone in someone else's lelling.

Kathusine Graham refused to
cooperate with Uie writing of the
book, which may be why she cones
aff as a remote, colourless character
with litle le say in the first person.
The acecamt of Philip Graham's
mental deterioration and eventual
suicide may have been what upset
her most, for itis a painful, even an
ugly story.

By far the book's most captivating
part is the beginning, which tells the
life stories uf Katharine Graham's
parents, Eugene and Agnes Ernst
Meyer, two very rich and interesting
peaple, Eugene was the sun of a
cultured and wealthy French-Jewish
nereantile family whe begun life in
the pioneer West, later became an
internatienal businessman, adviser
to the government and philanthrop-
iM. He purchased the Washington
Past in 1933.

Eugene is the book's most likeable
character, and the anly ane Davis
seems genuinely to admire. His wife,
Agnes Ernst, of German Lutheran
stock, was a much more eccentric
character who travelled in avant-
garde art circles, wrote passionately
on art and polities, patronized civic
causes, and translated Thomas
Mann, with whom she had an intense
and bizarre, if platonic, relationship
late in life. Together this couple
created a “great American family,”
the heritage and spirit of which,
Davis says, has always been Kathar-
ine Graham's chief motivation in
guiding her inherited newspaper.

In this strange way, individual
personalities create media phe-
nomena in America which, in turn,
come to generate an image and an
influence far out of proportion to the
individuals themselves or their ori-
ginal ideas. a

ute few, and protective luws arc
working well. “Only voluntary com-
pliance is being suggested; the card
would make it harder for criminals to
evade taxes” (even though volun-
tary?). Illegal immigrants would
have to apply via legal channels.

Personal, non-criminal datu files
‘could be legally defined as the joint
property of the file-keeping orga-
nization and the card holder.
Ombudsmen would hear grievances,
administer penalties. Technology
for guarding personal files improves
almost monthly. Number codes will
prevent file clerks from recognizing
names.

Sophisticated forgery can be defe-
ated only by increased sophistication
in protecting privacy (along with
appropriate laws and vigilant en-
forcement). ‘‘A voluntary, im-
proved system under federally en-
forced standards would be no threat
to anyone except the underworld”
{my note: even though voluntary?).

overnments used to exploit peo-
ple: today they devote large re-
sources to Aelp them; reliable JD
would ensure a minimum of fraud.

The danger is that a national ID
card would significantly expand gov-
ernment’s power to stop, question,
and search without a warrant ~ a
power confined today to driving-
safety-and-licensing procedures. To
an extent, the system might enable
authorized users to track and control
activities of all persons authorized to
work in the U.S. “The more the
government knows about us, the
more power it has over us. When [it]
knows all our secrets, we stand
naked before official power, strip-

ed of privacy... The Bill of Rights

comes just 80 many words.” Ω

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rs .;

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a far out idea for a celebration, Remember Woodstock?
Well, get ready for... Dimona! Our Foreign Minister went

to Los Angeles to drum up interest in a massive rock -

concert in the desert. The plan is to have the biggest
names in music performing for 100,000 Israelis on a site
near sleepy, little Dimona for the largest, loudest, funkiest
show of rock creativity since Genesis and the most
exciting event since the Parton of the Red Sea.

Wow, Madonna in Dimona! The Beach Boys in the
desert! Pink Floyd at the Wall! Bruce and Bowie, Zappa
and Zimmerman, U-2 and UB 40, Whitney Houston,
Chicago and Boston! It'll be quite a hootenanny — jazz
fusion, rhythm and blues, folk rock and maybe a sort of
cross-cultural blending that we could call rak reggae, or
rock regga, with bands such as the Wailers and
Dimoners, Dire Stralts and Economic Recovery, and the
Grateful Dead Sea. Dimona ts the pertact location for
such a concert: the city has all the necessities. There's
plenty of parking, right through to Ellat; an on-location
pave source to plug all those amps, lights and
loudspeakers Into; the weather is perfect, the bathrooms
clean, and there's a terrific felatel stand right near the bus
statlon. Greatidea, Mr. Peres! Now If only you could bring
the Beatles back together...

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PAGE EIGHTEEN

ISRAEL'S OLDEST writer, the
dramatist Max Zweig. why celebrat-
ed [ns Sth birthday un June 22, his
just presented us with his life mem-
dirs. The new hook has been called
a miracle hy none ether than Hans
Meyer. the renowned literary histe-
Tian, because the decision to write it
was nade by Max Zweig at the ripe
age of 93,

The immediate incentive for him
wis a nadie interview that he had
heard played back to him, A rather
uninformed young questioner suit
such banal and primitive questions
te the aged author that he felt cam-
polled ty give answers on a level that
was definitely not his own,
‘Thus, during one sleepless ni

ies of the radiv inter-
is how this bouk came

intu being.

THOMAS MANN’S dictum that
every wecomplished literary work
represents a sort of “despite -- de-
spite all physical and temporal limi-
tutions, despite all hardships im-
posed by untoward surroundings --
is especially true and applicable in
the case of this oki man’s life report.
First came the considerable loss of
hearing, then the weakness of the
eyes, to the extent that Zweig,
though somehow able to put the lust
chapters down on paper, was, in
fact, unable to decipher what he had
written down. Only with the con-
stant help of his life companion,
Wilhelmine Bucherer, did he man-
age to present the manuscript for
print.

‘The publishing firm of Bleicher,
having offered a home to so many
Israeli authors already, has show-
ered this book with special affection
by giving it an appealing form and
supplementing it with photos from
the various stations in this long way
through life -- from the parental
home in the little Moravian town of
Prosnitz, via Vienna, Berlin and Tel
Aviv to Jerusalem, the place of his

BESTIARIES are a very special
genre of book, They are the creation
of the most imaginative travellers
and explorers, and depict a variety of
birds and beasts as they were snid to
be, peresived to be or often im-
agined to be. But there’s more to it
than that, and down through the
centuries, they, have also filled the
tole of cautionary, moralistic books
of pious lore, and have a place in
both the Judaic and the Christian
tradition,

In An Odd Bestiary, Robinson and
Bloch explore four centuries of lore,
bringing us such choice items as
Nicholns Monarde's armadillo of
1596, where we learn that the arma-
dillo doesn't eat at all (a living remin-
der to avoid gluttony). Monarde
extols the virtues of the powder of
ground armadillo tail for headaches,
ecarnches nnd “poundings. in the
head.” We encounter the remark-
ably exact description by Hellodorus
in 1587 of a giraffe he had seen in
Ethiopia, and the highly improbable
one of Richard Eden ih 1
tells us that the elephant battles with
dragons as a matter of habit but is so
chaste that, having once mated with

alter loucheth her,” a most certain
caution against ἰδὲ. - πῇ

ἡ who’

a female, the male elephant “never -

tently at the egg. This

An adequate report

LEBENSERINNERUNGEN (Life -

Memuirs) by Mux Zweig: forward
by Hans Meyer. Gerlingen,
Bcicher edition. 263 pp. Ne price
stated,

Shalom Ben-Chorin

present creativity.

My own copy of this book con-
tains a kind of dedication in tremu-
Jous script that gives some idea of
how the manuscript must have
looked.

MAX ZWEIG has occupied himself
almost exclusively with drama for 40)
years, from [924 till 1965, However,
only a few of his plays have been

the year 1938 with The Marranos, it
drama from Jewish history. For the
stuging of this play, Zweig came to
Israel from his Czechoslovakian
home, which he was not fo see again
for a long time because of the out-
break of World War II.

He hud nut come here as a Zion-
ist, yet he came to love the land of
{srael, and, in his great biblical dra-
ma Savi and the kibbutz tragedy
Davidia, about the death of Yosef
Trumpeldor, paid his tribute to his
newly found homeland.

A. miracle of another kind is his
drama Franciscus (St, Francis of As-
sisi), which was written in Tel Aviv
in 1945, far from all the centres of
the Franciscan Vita. But the fact
remains that the Jewish dramatist in
the Jewish city of Tel Aviv became
So engrossed in the life and person-
ality of St. Francis that many years
later, in 1982, on the occasion of the
800th anniversary of the saint, this
drama received its widely acclaimed
premiere in Vienna.

It is characteristic of Max Zweig
that his themes, ranging from the
Bible through Jewish history to the
Warsaw Ghetto, also touch on wide-
ly different subjects, such as the
Spanish Civil War, Tolstoy's life,

Ostrich and prayer

AN ODD BESTIARY by Alan James
Robinson and Laurie Bloch. Uni-
versity of Illinois Press, Urbana and
Chicago, 26 linecuts and 26 drawings
plus text. No price stated.

A JEWISH BESTIARY by Mark
Podwal. Philadelphia, The Jewish
Publication Society of America, 52
pages, 25 illustrations. $10.95,

D’vora Ben Shaul

Ree ReneS

In fact, admonitions against all of
the seven deadly sins save despair
are presented in this collection that
tanges from Marco Polo right into

‘the end of the 17th century. The

drawings are a delight and the text,
whether quoted or rephrased, is

most interesting, °

MARK PODWAL'S A Jewish Besti-
a, on the other hand, isa collection
of 25 creatures popular in Jewish
lore. From it, through the delightful
line drawings and text of Podwal, we
{earn that an ostrich egg was.said to
be exhibited in synagogues in Safed

. and Hebron as well as other places

since, recording to the 18th cent
Rabbi Jacob Emden, | the “ostrich

_ “hatcheth her young by staring ins
Laem

course). ΠΝ greatest success was in

monstrates |

and sa on. His world of creative
fantasy is close to limitless, taking
from history themes that turned ints
poetic symbols.

ZWEIG THE DRAMATIST is ew-
dently formed by the Classical mad-
els -- from Greek tragedy to Kleist
and Hebbel. Among his contempo-
raries, it was mainly the nearly for-
gotten Paul Ernst who became his
mentor. Despite some early youth-
ful attempts, it was only at a very
advanced age that Mux Zweig
turned storyteller, namely in the sto-
ry of his own life.

Obedient to his father's com-
mand, the young Zweig studied law.
Yet though he completed this hated
course of study, and even acquired
the title of doctor of law, he never
practised this profession.

His resolution to devote himself
to the stage had been taken at a very
early date: the drama, “the boards
holding an entire world,” would, in-
deed, be his world. Nothing would
divert him from this self-appointed
course. Two world wars, his immi-
gration Yo Palestine, oppressive ma-
terial want and a foreign-language
environment (Hebrew) were unable
to shake his resoluteness, Inner real-
ity alone shaped the life of this poct.

Reading his personal sketches
and notes, we are deeply moved ind
kept in suspense by Zweig, who, as
a ‘Jewish poet in the German
tongue" (Max Brod), lived almost
through a whole century. Who του
compare with such a writer?

Indeed, a precious gift was hand-
ed to us on the occasion of his 95th
birthday. Parts of this autobiogra-
phy had already been published by
the German-language newspaper /s-
rael Nachrichten, and now it lies be-
fore us as a complete work contain-
ing a whole life's harvest.

One thing is missing, however. A
personality index would have
helped to show at a glance how
many important contemporaries
crossed Max Zweig's path of life.

Perhaps a second edition, which
we cordially wish both the author
and the oaberah would be able to
correct this omission. : 5
(From the “'Israel Nachrichten,
26.6.87. Translated by David Alster-
Yardeni.)

how powerful sustained observation
and concentration are. Indeed, they
benefit prayer,”

The list includes the serpent, the

"pious stork that is said to represent

the highest degree of solicitous care
for its companions, yet remains un-
clean because “its charity is limited
to its own kind, “and the gnat.

This latter insect is used to demon-
strate the fact that, as the sages said,
even nuisanceful species Log well
have been brought into being by the
Creator because the Divine Plan had
need of just one member of that tribe
to perform some necessary act.
Thus, a gnat entered the nostril of
the Roman general, Titus, after he
had sacked the Temple in Jerusalem.
The gnat, according to the Talmud,
took up residence in Titus's brain
and buzzed away, year after year,
slowly devouring his brain in the
process. He tried everything, ἃ
even had a slave pound an anvil by
his ear all day and all night since the
noise at first alarmed the gnat inte
silence. At last the anvil also ἔα μοι
him, for the gnat got used to the
noise. (One wonders if Titus ever
did, but then he was also too‘early to
try armadillo tail.) ‘

‘When the gnat had finished 1
mission of retribution, Titus died,
and the gnat, now weighing ‘Lat

jounds, looked like a sparrow Du!

had a beak of brass and claws of paint
All in all, a book to delight, ¥!
drawings both droll and powerful. 9

~ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1987

IT'S HUMILIATIN® to think that
after slogging through 16,000 words
to show that death can be as ridicu-
lous as any other human activity, or
rather inuclivity, these Great
Thoughts of Western Man were
used to wrap the fish in and have
already vanished like the snows of
yesteryear. All that is left are a few
yellowing clippings in the Jerusalem
Post archives, known appropriately
enough in newspaper jargon as the
Morgue.

There they'll get browner and
more brittle year by year together
with endless political punditry that
detected trends which never existed,
predicted cataclysms that never hap-
pened and headlined crises that fiz-
led out overnight like damp squibs.
These line the shelves together with
files on others who sought the bub-
ble reputation: half-forgotten politi-
cans such as Antonio Segni and Ju-
lius Raab; faded movie idles of the
calibre of Lynn Bari and John Car-
roll; and champs such as Gertrude
Ederle and Lou Nova who took the
count long ago. Newspaper archives
were described with uncanny pre-
science 2,000 years ago by Lucretius
in De rerum natura as “a place
where things destroyed with things
unborn are kept.”

Had we but world enough, and
time, 1 could churn out another
16,000 words but, let's face it,
enough is enough. All that whistling
in the dark has reduced me to the
condition of the lovelorn twit in Ed-
die Cherkose's 1942 lyric who, you
may recall, was not only in the soup
but whose heart had looped the
loop,

And to make the mutter worse, I'm

Breathless.

For the time being, then, this will
have to be the last word -- well, the
penultimate word, to be precise,
since I wanted to deal next week
with Last Wills and Testaments.
Oddly enough, the subject of this
weck’s Lesson is Famous Last
Words, followed by Sungs of Praise
No. 202, “For all the saints who
from their neighbours rest."

THEY MUST have been dying fort
rest from the labours, judging by
their behaviour in extremis. { have
toadmit that 1 find unbridled saintli-
ness a bit hard to take and 1 would
BO so fur us tu say that some of the
carly martyrs seem to me to have
been in urgent need of the services,

r anachronistic, of a shrink.

St. ‘Lawrence, for instance, who
was barbecued on a gridiron in the
third century, helpfully told his tor-
turers, “This side is done enough.”
He probably knew his flame would
spread throughout the Brutish Em-
pire but he never dreamed, I imag-
Ine, that nowadays he'd qualify as
McDonald's patron saint.

More than ἃ century earlier. in
110 CE, St. Ignatius was thrown
ἰο the lions as part of the good old
Panem et circenses formula that gov-
émments have always employed to
keep their subjects docile. “1 am
apes yf the κει of wild beasts,”

vhis audience, while playing
- the Coliseum, “that 1 may be found
pure bread for Christ.” It's not too
fifficut to imagine the poor tion
ening to all this speechifying in
: gre pe bslgrdn and wonder-
at this meshuggene

Want from my life?" ia
᾿ ΓΜΑΥ HAVE missed a few dead-
ess ™M my time but one way or
nother I've tracked down practical-
Ἐς €very Famous Lust Word of note.
“Mts in Edward le Comte's Dictio-
MY of Last Words, more recent
- ns by Thomas Kelly, Bar-
᾿ mrad, Jonathon Green and
» Or in the last chapters of

: Dintless biographies, then it is bur-

ee

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1987

somewhere in my primitive filing ,

EMER Lz ESSE RES ET τ

PRE PT ae το

This is it, chaps

WITH PREJUDICE / Alex Berlyne

system. Exhuming them recently, it
gradually became apparent that the
greater part are, to put it mildly, of
doubtful authenticity and are no
more difficult to detect than a
shocking-pink dollar bill bearing a
portrait of Yoram Aridor.

Oddly enough, one, of seemingly
impossible gallantry, is well-authen-
ticated. For reasons which will
emerge later, I am delighted to re-
port that they were uttered by a
woman. Madeline Talmadge Astor
was ἃ passenger On the Titanic when
it went down in 1912. Several wit-
nesses overheard her as she sur-
veyed the huge chunks of ice fallen
from the iceberg on to the deck of
the stricken vessel. “I rang for ice,”
she remarked, “but this is
ridiculous.”

Unfortunately, these Famous Last
Words are hors de concours since
she survived the disaster, but after
that plucky bon mot the rest of her
life must have been an anti-climax.

Male gallantry is much more sus-
pect. The Seigneur de Bayard, for
example, who was quite literally
butchered on the battlefield of Ro-
magnano in 1524, is supposed to
have begged with his last breath,
“Let me die facing the enemy.”
Now this seems to be taking the
chevalier sans peur et sans reproche
‘business far too literally but, you
have to ask yourself, would he be
remembered at all if his comrades
had reported that he said something
like “Let's get the hell out of here’’.

Nathan Hale, as every American
schoolboy knows, when facing a
British firing squad in 1776, regret-
ted that he could dic but once for his
country -- this was before Water-
gate, remember. Khomeini’s execu-
tioners, who are believed to have
perfected some unspeakable tech-
niques, would have done their level
best to oblige him.

‘The stiffest upper lip of all time
belonged, naturally, to a British air
Wing-Commander "Paddy"
Finucane, who was shot down over
the Channe! during the Battle of
Britain. Paddy was credited with ut-

tering a clipped. yet laconic “This is

it, chaps” before hitting the drink,
thereby inspiring Danny Kaye's lu-
natic parody in The Secret Life of
Walter Mitty. .

THERE CAN BE no doubting,
however, the last known words of
General George Armstrong Custer,
killed at the Battle of the Little Big
Horn in 1876, because he actually
committed them to paper when he
sent his adjutant back to fetch up
reinforcements. The message read
“Benteen — come on -- Big Village -
-- be quick -- bring packs.” Captain
Benteen, unfortunately, was himself
besieged and in no position to help
and, since there were no survivors of
Custer's force, no one really knows
what the Boy General's last words
really were -- apart from the note.
This has been the subject of end-
less speculation. Until I learned that
his enemies were Sioux and Chey-
enne, I had assumed that the battle-
field was called the Little Big Corn
and Custer's Last Words had been
“My Blackfeet are killing me.”
Another version was provided"by
Beverley Pepper, the well-known
American sculptress. Beverley once
made a group that included a fish
standing on its tail, its head crowned
with a halo, surrounded by pairs of
copulating braves and squaws. “The
theme was Custer's Last Stand,” she

told a puzzled San Diego fine urts
commission who were considering
her for some work on a federal
building. “You remember his last
words,” she explained: ** ‘Holy
mackerel, look at all those f---ing
Indians." "

WHEN I'VE eliminated all the
doubtful ones, the only Famous Last
Words that seem to me to be incon-
trovertibly authentic were those ut-
tered by David Garrick, the actor,
who was a friend of Dr. Johnson's.
The great lexicographer once direct-
ed an unforgettable complaint at
him: “I'll come no more behind
your scenes, David,” he said, “for
the silk stockings and white bosoms
of your actresses excite my amorous
propensities." Yes, I know this has
nothing to do with the subject; can't
T give it a rest for a line or two?

Unchallenged as the greatest ac-
tor-manager of his time, Garrick
eventually earned a place in West-
minster Abbey. I am quite sure he
wasn't acting on his death-bed, how-
ever, for his last words were ex-
tremely terse for one thing and
moreover, touchingly reveal a very
human frailty. Suddenly coming all
over queer, as they used to say,
Garrick croaked a dismayed "Oh
dear!" and gave up the ghost.

His example has persuaded ime to
prepare one for my own eventual
use, a cri de coeur that will be as
incontestably heart-felt as Gar-
tick's. After trying and rejecting
various possibilities -- resigned, ex-
ultant, fearful, heroic, forgiving,
and so forth -- I've finally settled on
“I want a second opinion!"

Still, it’s not really worth making
a fuss about; when you begin to
approach a distinctly unripe old age,
as Yeats reminds us, you only have a
number of choices left:

Slow decay of blood,

Testy delirium

Or dull decrepitude.

Moreover, the older you get, the
more unfamiliar -- and all too often,
unpleasunt -- things become, mak-
ing it casier to Iet go. Kingsley Amis
once sitid it for me:

Look thy last on ali things shitty

While thou'rt at it: soccer stars,

Soccer crawds,

bushheads

Jerking over their guitars.

He even had a go at Che Guevara
posters, Beckett's plays and high-
rise architecture then, unforgivably,
chickened out at the last moment,
admitting that any of these horrors
were preferable to the screens
around his hospital bed. The
poem, however, does explain why
cantankerous old codgers like my-
self really don't mind dying so
much. The only trouble is you feel
so bloody stiff next day.

GARRICK, then, was an excep-
tion. I suspect that the usual “words
to say before 1 was so rudely inter-
rupted" are carefully fashioned, re-
hearsed and then passed on with a
certain amount of insouciance. Hen-
ry James, a craftsman to his finger-

tips, got off a memorable one in -

1916. “So here it is at last,” he re-
marked, “the distinguished thing.”
This at any rate Is the official ver-
sion. I rather suspect that this was
delivered some time before he
kicked the bucket and what he really
said at the end was “Mother!” or
possibly “Aargh!" to borrow a term
from the comics -- or something
equally undistinguished.

‘Though last words clearly belong

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hedizened

in the Do-lr- Yourself category,
there are hordes of parodists ready
and willing to supply then, their
work features regularly on the com-
petition pages of weeklies such as
the New Statesman and New York
miaguzine.

The best are us unashamedly ficti-
tious as those of St. Lawrence or
even Charles Foster Kune's “Rose-
bud!” Clearly as irritated by the she-
nanigans on 60 Minutes as [ am,
Clifton Fadiman once credited Mike
Wallace with one last inquisitorial
confrontation: “Now, Sir,” he be-
gan, “You once said in Genesis..."

A gag that crops up frequently, “I
want my mummy!" is attributed to
Tutankhamen but the joke falls
rather flat when you consider thut
he was only a youth and that is what
he might have actually said. The
ancient Egyptian royal families were
noted for their rather messy domes-
tic arrangements, however, so the
young Pharaoh could just as well
have said ‘auntie’ or even “Sis,”
for hy 81} accounts they could have
been one and the same person.

An anonymous clevator operator
is said to have asked “Going up?"
before hanging up a permanent Out
of Order sign while, conversely,
Mae West -- who always ended her
sentences with a proposition -- is

. Supposed to have signed off with a

husky “Come down and see me
some time."

Poor Mae; jokes at the expense of
women are by no means rare. |
would categorize them as Infamous
Last Words.

IT PAINS me to have to tell you
that the original Male Chauvinist
Pig was, paradoxically, a king of
Israel. Abimelech, according to
Judges 9:54, had his skull fractured
when a woman dropped a chunk of
millstone from the tower of Thebez
while he was besieging the city.
He promptly had a conniption.
“Draw thy sword and slay me," he
told his armour-bearer, “that men
say not of me, A woman slew him."
The armour-bearer promptly
obliged, thus beating Betty Friedan

to the draw by about 3,000 years.

Abimelech compares inost {πες
vourably with Porky Pig, the veter-
an star of what {srael TV calls
“Drawn Films.” Porky, you will re-
call, always signs offin a gentleman-
ly fashion with “Th-th-¢h-that's all,
fotks.”

We are all only too familiar, I'm
sure, with the sort of nionster who
works tirelessly for the advance-
ment «οἵ mankind while behaving
abominably to individuals. Rous-
seuu's Coritrat social, for example,
would liberate the entire human
race, but he himself placed his own
children in a foundling home.

It is hardly surprising, then, to
learn from his Confessions that, “in
the agonies of death, the Comtesse
de Vercelles," in whose service the
young Rousseau had spent some
time, “broke wind loudly. ‘Good!"
she said, turning around, ‘a woman
who can fart is not dead.’ " Thanks
to Jean Jacques, the original Roger-
the-Lodger-the-Sad, posterity
knows little else of the poor woman.

Ina rather different situation, the
painter Georges Roualt behaved
equally unféclingly. Apart from
supplying some Mere Bystander's
Last Words, thus pre-empting his
poor wife's prerogative, he looked
intently at her engorged features.
“God!” he said. “What a beautiful
purple.”

Just to balance things a bit, per-
haps 1 ought to mention Sir Elijah
Wimpey, an early 19th-century
judge who apologized to his nurse
for leaning too any νον her as she
helped him into bed. His last record-

- ed words were, “Did ! hurt you; my

dear?” a

Out of Zion

CALEB‘S COLUMN
N.D. Gross

ZIONISM IS so mighty a force, de-
clared Shmarya Levin, orator and
wit afler whom Heraliya’s rustic
neighbour, Kfar Shmaryahu, is
named, that not all the efforts of the
World Zionist Organization can
prevent its fulfilment. half a centu-

ry later the struggle goes on between
the official Zionist leaders and the
natural aspiration of Jews'for Zion.
And today we have the pathetic

sight of prominent politicians spurn-

ing office in the niovement, secing
this as a shameful comedown, while
third-rankers who see it as prumo-
tion are pushed around by party

chiefs like counters on u ludo board.
The Zionist movement evokes more

pity than disgust as aliya shlihim
outnumber olim and WZO depart-
ments squabble with government
ministries as to whose bureaucrats
are to make the first steps in [sract
difficult for the few newcomers.

Political parties in Israc] resort to
all the tricks in the game to try and
ensure control of this vast dispenser
of money and jobs..

It was once explained to me why
there is more likely to be nepotism
in Labour-dominated borough
councils in Britain than in Conservu-
tive ones. It is not that Labourites
are more venal than Tories; it's just
that they have more poor relations.

I don't suppose our third-rank
politicians are really any worse than
some of the local Jewish organiza-
tion leaders abroad who thirst for
and elbow their way to places on the
world scene, but they could certain-
ly find more use for the spoils of
office. 7

THE WZO executive was brought
to Jerusalem five or six decades ago
because it was felt that here, rither
than London, was the centre of the
struggle for Jewish statehood. This
struggle was won 40 years ago and
the (ask of defending ani! strength-
ening the State is new in the hands
of ils sovereign government. ‘The
main task of the Zionist movement
now is to defend and strengthen the
Jews who have chosen so far to re-
main outside [στη]. and to encour-
age them to change their minds.

{ would suggest thereture that we
now rid ourselves of this great wen
and move the headquarters of the
movement to New York or Paris, or
wherever the Zionists linger. There
it could have a stronger and more
immediate input on aliya, Jewish
education and the fight aguinst as-
similation, which are the battle
fronts today,

This would end the unseemly
struggle between the Absorption
Ministry and the WZO, stop the
wastefulness of the settlement de-
partment doing what the Agricul-
ture Ministry should be doing, anc
set countless clerks free for produc-
tive employment. It would also al-
low the King David Hotel to cater
for visiting secretaries of state.

If the execulive goes to Paris, Yo-
sef Burg would be delighted to come
out of retirement to heed a call to
head the movement.

What, you will usk, should be
done with the buildings of the na-
tional institutions, Jerusalem's sec-
ond Dormition Abbey. Easy. Use
them as an interrogation centre for
captured terrorists -- scarcely any-
one has got out of there unmarked.
Or move a yeshiva there -- it already
has a national flag.

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EARLY MORNING at the Old
City’s Lion's Gate. Women dressed
in long embroidered dresses carry
colourful bundles and baskets full of
vegetables. Men lead donkeys
through narrow alleys as children
dart to and fro. Suddenly, a motor-
cycle driven by 4 young, blond man
in black jeans, cowboy boots and
mirrored sunglasses roars into view,
scattering pedestrians and sailing
over a herd of goats as it exits
through the stone archway.

The entire episode seems fantas-
lic -- almost like a scene from a
movie. Which it is. For the last six
weeks, Riding the Edge, an action-
adventure film, has been shooting in
Jerusalem and elsewhere around the
country, although it is ostensibly set
in some unspecified North African
country.

It is the story of an 18-year-old
boy, Matt, whuse father is kid-
napped by terrorists from an inter-
national laboratory where he is chief

Focus on film
Andrea King

engineer of a top-secret project. Be-
cause of various foul-ups on the part
of the local police and the lab’s boss,
the youth is forced to rescue his
father on his own.

Riding the Edge is fast-paced and
full of motorcycle stunts, high falls.
cars coreering around corners, chase
scenes and, of course, the requisite
tomance. Near the Dead Sea, the
motorcycle has been photographed
fmeing over a aba chasm. In Ei-

ὦν ἃ ferry-type boat carrying don-
keys, Beduin, clay pots and uctors
has provided the backdrop for a
fight scene; the straw-covered scu-
ba-gear shack at Rafi Nelson's vil-
lage was turned overnight into an
adobe hut,

Parts of the film have also been
shot in Acre, Jaffa, Haifa, a refugee
camp outside of Jericho, and Di-
ta Local Lge services for

movie are being provided b
ἊΝ Films, oh ids 5,
ames Fargo, whose credits in-
dude Clint Eastwood's The Enfore-
erand Every Which Way but Loose,
's directing the film; it is being pro-
duced by Wolf Schmidt, who con-
ceived the story. Two up-and-com-
ing American actors, Catherine
Stewart and Raphael Sbarge,
and veteran actor Peter Haskell star
inthe $5-million film due for release
next Summer. Agfa film, used’ for
oi Movies set in exotic locations
br 85 Out of Africa and The Mis-
rid is being used for the shooting
[ΒΓΕ to give the finished product an
Amleresting, soft colour.

THE MOVIE'S producers original-
ehecuted locations in Morocco
tena they found the scenery “won-
τί ΠΝ says Schmidt,
eto there is virtually no motion
=a industry there and we would
puts 84 to bring most of our own
ele and €quipment. In Israel, how-
-NXer, the ‘look’ had to be created in

: ishea Wty but there is an estab-

industry here that provides

Makers Services to foreign film-

. "We

τὰ Ve have covered over signs in

ἊΝ and signs of modernity and
b with the results.

τ δα detinitet Ἷ
. a uitely do not feel like you
a ae Matching a movie made in Isra-_-

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Ἰ “It's very tough making a movie
here,” counters director Fargo.
“But it's a tough movie. There is a
lat of action, a lot of locations, Lo-
gistically, it's difficult and we've had
some bad weather.”

But despite the difficulties that go
hand-in-hand with shooting un ac-
tion picture, Fargo still loves making
them. “Action pictures are a chal-
lenge. Working outside, a tot of
stunts and special effects -- all the
dangerous stuff.

“T like everything about this pic-
ture," he suys, “the story, the uctors
the action. Riding the Edge is basi-
cally an action-adventure film that is
very well told, We are having u fot of
fun making it -- the actors and [ are
having a wonderful time.”

Actor Peter Haskell (Bracken’s
World, Rich Man Poor Man, Book
11} is full of praise for the director.

“He's been in the business a long
time and comes fron) the ald schoul
of directing. He knows what he's
doing and working with him is like
slicing hot butter. An actor is like a
louded gun and you need a director
to point you in the right direction.”

Haskell, whose fuce is more rec-
ognizable than his name, has speut
much of his time here exploring and
sightseeing. He has an endearing
manner and likes to tell stories, One
night at the bar of the Dan Panora-
ma in’ Haifa, he met the commander
of the USS Saratoga and fell into
conversation with him. The next
day, cast and crew members re-
ceived a four-hour tour of the ship
given by the admiral.

For actress Catherine Mary Stew-
art (The Last Star Fighter, Night of
the Comet) such recognition as Has-
kell enjoys is just around the corner.
She has recently made, four feature
films back-to-back, none of which
has been released yet.

“It's not the waiting that bothers
Me as much as the fear that they'll
probably all come out at the same
time and I may as well have just
made one,” says the blond, blue-
eyed Canadian-born actress.

Stewart likes her role of Maggie in
Riding the Edge; “She's strong, in-
dependent and fun, almost flip at
times and yet also very serious. [
like roles like this that go against
what I look like I should play, Gen-
. erally, I'm typecast as a young, in-
nocent girl-next-door type, which is
boring. I've played it so much and 1
don’t think it's really me. This char-
acter has a lot of dimension and I
like that. She's not just an adjunct to
the male lead.”

In Riding the Edge, an effort has
been made to create characters that
are more than just stereotypes. Matt,
the star of the film, could have been a
big, hunky hero type that saves the
day -- and his dad.

Instead, he “is an ordinary person
in extraordinary circumstances and
the audience very much needs to be
on his side and to believe in him,"
says Wolf Schmidt. “We looked for
a male lead for a very a i We
didn't want just any established ac-
tor who could play an 18-yenr-old.
We wanted something different --
not the all-American blond, surfer
boy. We wanted an actor, not just a
pretty face."*

ai ἐν

4 ἊΝ 3 ὲ

‘Riding the Edge," action-packed adventure - motorcycle stunts, high falls, careering cars -- filrned in Israel, but set
in North Africa. (Below) Up-and-coming stars Cutherine Mary Stewart and Rafael Sbarge.

IN RAFAEL SBARGE it seems
Schmidt found “Ὁ pretty face" --
with an enormous amount of talent.
Sbarge is best known in the U.S. for
_ his roles in telefilms. Last May in

᾿ (Continued on page E)

re

MOSP MALE ἀν enlertain, in
ther sesret dreams, the aspiration
to play wets :

Hamlet, the other is €

ἔκταν, No πρ toexplain the reason

fur the firal wish, and [suspect the
second 15 justia obvious. For the
partut Cyrane is the apportunity far
ah achor te prove te has nore than
just pond looks. In fact, the looks
ire spoiled intentionally by an enore
Mous nose, the kind even Jammy
Durante would envy. Yet. in spite uf
this, Cyrana ts suppescd te he ane
af the ficent romantic
er Romed. On top
it is also is supreme shiw-

piece. in which the player is τὰς
quired to display his expertise iu
fencing, clowning: and
within the tramewor'
performance.

No wonders, therefore, that Steve

atts, itll
af one

en wailing far yes for it
to phy Cyriao. And why
not? Everything he did, or almost
everything was reecived with appre-
Ciative laughter by press und public
alike, ut least in America so he felt
he was ripe for the erent chullenge.

The result is. a movie entitled Rex-
anne, a free, updated adaptation of
the Edmond Rostand play into
Amiericunese.

‘The valiant, long-nosed 17th-cen-
tury commander of the Paris guard
has become in the process C.D.
Bales, head of the volunteer fire
brigade in the small ski resort of
Nelson, Washington. The beuutiful
flower of saciety Roxanne has pre-
served her exotic name, and hus
been given an equally exotic occupa-
tion. She is a student of astronomy
about to discover a new comet. The
rest of the churacters find their com-
fortuble purallels, too,

The fact that Rostund based his
Cyrano de Bergerac on an historical
character, a philosopher, man of Iet-
ters and swordsman, means that his
play has much more to offer than
virtuoso exercises in declamation
und man-lo-man combat, something
that is usually ignored.

NEVER HAVING been among the
ardent fans of Mr. Martin, whose
type of humour | found rather obvi-
ous and ovorbearing, I must say this
film was ἃ welcome surprise. Since
he not only plays the lend, but is also

"θέειν Dancing a0 corny, so old-fashioned, ulmost a ‘cult item.

Cyrano update

responsible for the aduplation, one
has i give him the credit for an
amusing and unchurneteristically
cuntrolled movie.

It is quite possible that_ the
towering item on his face fulfilled
his need ta overde his comic effects,
for he plays against his apparently
natural grain, in the simples and
most straightforward manner.

Daryl] Hannah is, os usual, pe
cally stunning as Roxanne, Shelley
Duvall, who has been ubsent too
long from the big screen, plays Dix-
ic, the confidante whe has the trust
of both sides; and Rick Rossovich
plays Chris, whose physique charms
Roxanne until she discovers (he
emptiness up above.

All of which sounds nice and ensy
before you go into the details.
The dilemma here is adupting a
play written in 1897 into late ΕΝ
century dialogue and making it plau-
sible. Once you do away with the
costumes and conventions of the his-
torical play, and use present-day
characters, language and customs,
you have to change more than just
lines; you have to change attitudes,

The encounter between C.D.
Bales, Charlie to his friends, and a
couple of garrulous out-of-town
jerks in the first sequence, oul of
place and context in the film, is an
exaniple of an adaptation that fails
to transfer smoothly from one medi-
um into another.

As for the words Charlie places in
Chris's mouth, in order to charm the |

budding astronomer, they sound a
hit archaic, the kind a man would be
embarrassed to whisper in the ear of
ἃ strapping, vivacious, modern, lib-
erated girl like Daryl Hannan,
THE SPLENDED intentions of the
play remain intact: a man willing to
sacrifice his love for u woman in
order to help the man she believes
she loves into her arms. This is still
admirable. Disguised by historical
conventions and costume, the origi-
nal lines imparted the majesty of the
feclings they conveyed, without
having to worry about credibility,
for obviously nobody speaks in real
life the way people talk in an histori-
eal play.

The attempt to rephrase it in plain
language in ἃ movie, which is any-
way more realistic than a play, and
hide behind feeble stage tricks, is
less effective.

The mast obvious comic effects in
the film reminiscent of Martin's
brand of humour, concern the activ-
ities of his firemen, a latter-day ver-
sion of the Keystone Cops, who
find it much easier to put a match to
themselves than (o put it out. Still,
with (typical Keystone Cop logic,
they manage to extinguish a modest
fire all by themselves, just before
the movie ends. :

But in spite of all its inconsisten-
Gies, the film works, in a bizarre
fashion. {€ the old Cyrano prevailed
in a world of Fake values and hypoc-
risy through a brilliant mind telped
by an agile hand, Charlie Bales, who

lives int basivally decent, naive un-
sophisteated world, succeeds just
because he emhadies these qualities
better than anyone else around.

When he consules a fat kid whose
school chums are making fun of him
he puts his own plight into the right
perspective, and suggests thit when
penple are basically good, nothing
can really he a problem. Too good
to be truce. But don't forget you're at
the movies.

ONE OF THE reasons I prefer Rox-
anne to something like Dirty Dane-
ing, a recent monster hit in Ameri-
ca, is its willingness to get oul of the
tired, well-trodden path of Holly-
wood. It isn’t revolutionary, to be
sure: but at least it's different.

Dirty Dancing is very ifing Hol-
lywood has ever peddled to us, with
ἃ vengeance, It is so corny, so old-
fashioned, so obvious, that it goes
way beyond cheap exploitation and
becomes alinost a “cult” item, with
lines like “God wouldn't have given
you marracas if he didn’t want to
shake them," or “Everybody treats
me like nothing because T am
mothing."

Dr. Houseman, his wife and his
two daughters, Susan and Frances,
better known as Baby, arrive ut Kel-
lerman's, in the Catskills, for a
three-week vacation. Jt is the sum-
mer of 1963, and Kennedy is still
alive, as the soundtrack insists on
pointing out.

This ts the summer when Baby's
adolescence will end and she will
discover some facts of life that will
not quite fit in with her liberal Jew-
ish education. Like, for instance,
that everybody is equal.

For at Kellerman’s, the world is
strictly divided into customers and
staff, and the two must never meet
officially, for every such meeting
breeds trouble,

One night, out of sheer boredom,
Baby drifts into the servants’ quar-
ters and finds them indulging in
“dirty dancing," a frenetic explo-
sion of passion to the hits of the
period, a far cry from the decorous
waltzing in the hotel's ballroom.

She walks in tentatively and loses
hér innocence.

First she is involved in a pretty
atrocious plot. The Kellerman’s
dance teacher is pregnant by one of
the Ivy League boys working as
summer waiters and has to have an
abortion. Baby, the Jewish princess "

do-gooder immediately feels
obliged τὸ do something about it.

In the process, she ulso manages
to get closer to the teacher's dance
purtner, played by Patrick Swayze,
as a proletarian stud, who does his
best to put Travolta (a shame both
asa dancer and as a mucha. She
even gets some free dancing lessons,
and what follows isn’t Loo diffteull to
imagine,

NATURALLY, everything comes
out publicly in the end, which turns
out better than you might imagine
or believe. As a matter of fact, the
hackneyed formulas of Hollywuod
are so piously respected that you
may even be surprised that every-
thing Happane exactly as you have
imagined,

Also that everything, including
the lascivious dirty dancing, is kept
ata level of decency which fits on the
one hand the old Hollywood stan-
dards and on the other, the new
post-Aids ones, which, believe il or
not, are often very similar.

Fixing the exact year when the
story takes place obviously means
there was un attempt here to say
something about American history.

When Baby tells Kellerman's
nephew she intends to join the
Peace Corps after she graduates, he
answers that he wil! march to Mont-
gomery, Alabama, to indicate that
maybe it was fashion more than po-
litical conviction that motivated
some of these people,

On the other hand, for authentici-
ty’s sake, it must be said many of the
dance sequences seem closer in style
to the Saturday Night Fever period,
of the ’70s, and tlie same is true for
some of the costumes.

But I'm afraid I'm missing the
point. True, the at is pretty awful
at times, particularly the bit about
the pregnancy and the rich bitch epi-
sode, The dialogue is incredibly ba-
nal, But then, let's face it, I'm not
the audience for this kind of picture
anyway, ᾿

It is pretty obvious that Patrick
Swayze is the next teenage idol, and
when he holds the Jewish princess in
his arms, every single girl in the
audience will immediately identify
with her.

Believe it or not, this, and not the
satirical remarks about Catskill re-
sorts or Jennifer Grey's thespian tal-
ents or nostalgia for the '60s, is what
is going to sell this movie. oO

Film festival David Horovitz

LONDON.-- A Prayer for the Dying
was always going to be a controver-
sinl choice to open this month's Lon-
don Film Festival,

The story of IRA defector Martin
Fallon ied Rourke), forced by
ἃ gang-land boss (o carry oul one
more killing, it has been the snbject
of a furious argument belween di-
rector Mike Houges and. actors
Rourke and Bob Hoskins on tte one
hand, and producer Sam Goldwyn
Jnr. on the ather, Hodges claims
that Goldwyn re-cut the film.to ex-
clude seenes showing the ‘anguish
Rourke undergoes in altempting to
come to terms with his past, and that
in the process, the contral theme of
the film was destroyed.

The version put ot on release, he
says, “wits no longer the film 1 had
made. Worse, trust between dirgctor
und actor had been breached.” Four
of his last five films, adds Hodges,
have now been tampered with by
producers in the name of American

audiences. :

And Rourke, an Trish-American

A dying fall

whe became so involved in the pro-
duction that he hired his own script-
writer to adc scencs, has necused
Goldwyn of seeking to transform a.
sorious, sonsitive work into a “big,
commercial, extravaganza... Now
it's 0 total wash-out.” -
Goldwyn adniits to-cutting three
minutes from the completed film
Hodges handed to him in December.
1986, and to substituting lavish or-

chostration for Hodges’ austere, ;
sparse soundtrack. But he claims.’

that le acted anly in the interests of
the film's conmmercial vigbility, with .

no intention, of subordinating its:

CONCerns,

. Hortges was so infuriated by”

Goldwyn's “barbarisin” that he de- i

manded that his-nnme be removed |.

from the, credits. Goldwyn refused. ὦ

"THE JERUSALTIM POST MAGAZINE! 1.

. bomb at the Enniskillen

Despite all the bickering, howev-
er, the London’ Film Festival's new
director Sheila Whitaker was firmly
committed to opening with A Prayer

_ for the Dying.

Until; that is, the IRA placed a
emem-
branco Day service, killing 11
people. ot ae

_ Hodges’ film, by a macabre coin-.
cidence, opens with a scéne showing
4 group of ‘schoolchildren being
blown up by an IRA bomb (hat was
inter -for the security sorvices.
Rourke's character, the man behind
the bombing, had been ordered to
target an army convoy, but the oper.

ation goes wrong, children die, and.
he deserta the TRA and flees to”

London. ae :
There, in return for'imoney and a:

passport, he kills again, but this time
too there is a hitch, as you'll see
when the film reaches Israel shortly.

AT THE last minute then, festival
director Whitaker dropped A Pray-
er for the Dying from the festival
programme, and Hodges was spared
the unwelcome honour of having his
disowned film screened in pride of
place. ;

The deeper irony behind the elev-
enth-hour decision to cancel lies in
the fact (hat, butchered or not, its
slant is unmistakably anti-IRA.

Rourke's character painfully ques- ἡ
tions the ideals that purportedly mo- ©
. tivate the organization, and his de-

fection and -breakdown show -
graphically that he ultimately finds
those ideals to be hollow. i
Goldwyn is known to have cut
Ono scene in which Rourke gestures
wildly*to the heavens and ‘asks
whether” God can ‘explain “why

. thousands of Irish ep still want

murder and bloodshed and’ armed
struggle, ind I don't? Can He recon-
rae Ben Sintec bres RO as

cile their love for Him with their
acceptance of murder?”

The other cuts, justified by Gold-
wyn as making the film “more ac:
ceptable to American audiences,
have apparently stripped it of much
of its subtlety. (Goldwyn's efforts
appear to have been in vain; the filnt
is doing poorly at U.S. box offices.)

But the message is still palpably
there. Author Jack Higgins, on
whose best-seller the film is based,
has no doubts on that score, and
describes A Prayer for the Dying 38
the best Glm ever made from his
books, including The Eagle Hos
Landed. ᾿

In deciding to drop A Prayer for
the Dying from the festival, the of

izers have, like Goldwyn, sim] ly
failed to credit audiences with
enough intelligence to appreciate its
fundamental meaning.

For Hollywood producers, out [0
maximize box office returns, such 4
failure is understandable if deplor-
able. At a film festival, it. ¥
inexcusable.’ ao

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1987

With

Rock Etc.Gilea

Sting’s calm side

WHY DO WE get the impression
that former Police vocalist Sting is a
workattatic? You would expect that
today, four yeurs after his departure
from The Police, with an almost
constant appearance in the hit pa-
rades, his latest release Nothing
Like The Sun (Helicon) would be
bis fifth or even sixth solo album.

Sting is a hard worker, to say the
least. However, Nothing Like The
Sun, sporting an irregular 60 min-
utes of muterial on two discs, is only
this tatented musician's second solo
studio album to date.

The illusion of his presence in the
pop world is created with the help of
a multitude of projects he has
worked on over the last five years,
These include tracks from The Se-
cret Policemen's Other Ball -- an
Anmesty International project from
1982; the Band Aid single “Do They
Know It's Christmas’; and Sting's
interpretation of “Mac The Knife"
on the compilation album Lost In
The Stars, the tribute to poet Kurt
Weill, released in 1985,

THE MATERIAL on Nothing Like
The Sun is chasacteristic of Sting's
versatile and creative style, Ranging
from rock to reggae, this album is
mainly on the calm side, not offering
much in the form of up-tempo
Stompers. The calmness within the
music is enhanced by Sting’s philo-
sophical lyrics, which he transmits to
the listener in a very personal
manner.

Sting sings about lave and its
Many conflicts and contradictions in
“The Lazarus Heurt,”” and “Be Still
My Beating Heart."In “Englishman
in New York" he takes a tour of
Manhattan, emphasizing the differ-
ence between himself and the New
Yorker.

On side two, Sting looks at death
and politics in ἃ sequence of three
emotional epics. In ‘History Will
Teach Us Nothing,” he explains his
tragic view of history. He follows
with “They Dance Alone (Gueca
Solo)" in which he sympathizes with
the women who ritually dance for
their missing and murdered spouses.
ἴῃ “Fragile” he expresses his feel-
ings concerning mortality, apparent-
ly inspired by a friend being mur-

Limor

dered by the Nicaraguan Contras.

He explores two different fulures
in “We'll Be Together" and
“Straight to my Heart.” In the for-
mer, an optimistic Sting looks for-
ward to being united with his loved
one, wheras in the latter he pessi-
mistically looks many years ahead to
the demise of love and emotions
within a world of science and
technology.

He collaborates with bandleader
Gil Evans for his own version of
Jimi Hendrix's psychedelic “Little
Wing,” a song Evans has been per-
forming with his orchestra for years.

Sting is known as a very sociable
person, especially when it comes to
music. On Nothing Like The Sun,
we find « large list of guests who
assist him on the album.

The album's primary line-up in-
cludes keyboardist Kenny Kirkland,
drummers Manu Katche and Andy
Newmark, percussionist Mino Cin-
elu and saxophonist Branford Mar-

τ salis. In “They Dance Alone,"

Mark Knopfler, Fareed Haque and
Erie Clapton share guitar solos,
while the Spanish vocal passage
mid-song is handled by Ruben
Blades. Former fellow Policeman
Andy Summers contributes to "The
Lazarus Heart” and “Be Still My
Beating Heart."

A superb product from one uf this
decade's leading artists, Nothing
Like The Sun is an album not to be
missed. The album is also locally
availahie on chrome cassette and on
imported compact disc.

THE BAND THAT refuses to die
is my favourite description of the
British progressive rock group, Yes.
And this group does more than jus-
tify its existence, almost 20 years
and eight line-ups after its
foundation.

The Yes history began in 1968,
when the group was founded by vo-
calist Jon Anderson and bassist
Chris Squire, The group's first key-
boardist, Tony Kaye, remained with
Yes until 1971, when he was re-
placed by Rick Wakeman, Drum-
mer Bill Bruford left the group in
early 1973, and the job was taken
over by Alan White.

Oddly enough, the group's cur-

ἂς.

rent line-up includes both Kaye and
White, although the two did not
play together prior to 1983,

ith the release of Yes's latest
album, Big Generator (General Mu-
sic), it scems that the group is in
search of its former glory. The
chances of this are grent. Yes, al-
ready a legend of progressive rock,
are somewhat repeating their or-
chestral rock formulae so unique in
the "705, and with a line-up of four
long-time or founding Yes mem-
bers. The only newcomer to the
group is multi-instrumentalist Tre-
vor Rabin, replacing Steve Howe on
guitars.

Big Generator is rich with orches-
tral rock. Unlike the group's 1983
release 90125, in which Yes seemed
to be selling Gut with short Top-Ten
songs, Big Generator finds the group

: a alt
Philosophical offerings on Sting's second solo album, ‘Nothing Like The Sun

exceeding the six-minute mark on
three tracks and almost touching
five minutes on four of the remain-
ing five. :

And this is no discotheque materi-
al. The complex interweaving of Ra-
bin's guitar riffs, Kaye’s keyboard
solos and Anderson's complex and
unique vocal lines reminds me of
clussic Yes releases such as Close to
the Edge, Relayer and others of that
period.

Whereas “Owner of a Lonely
Heart" from 90/25 left me rather
baffled upon its release, especially
when it lit the discotheques like dy-
naniite, superb tracks from Big Gen-
erator such as “Shoot High Aim
Low" “Final Eyes” and the title
song leave the discotheque image
way behind.

Big Generator also emphasizes

the group's recovery from the split
in 1980, following the departure of
Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman.
A rather dismal document of that
period is the group's album, Drama.

On that release, with the absence
of Anderson and Wakeman, the
characteristics of Yes’s music
seemed ta lose much of it's vitality,
Replacement Dramu vocalist Geoft
Downes and the other group mem-
bers didn't succeed in reproducing
the unique effect that Anderson
could contribute with his voice. It all
seemed like a cheap imitation. Iron-
ically, the concert tour that accont-
panied Drama was a huge success,

Big Generator features Yes with a
good strong line-up and fresh ideas,
totally adapted to the "80s. The saga
of this legendary group continues,
the musicgetting better andbetter, Ὁ

Pop Gloria Deutsch

“MUSIC IS feeling -- you've got to
feel it inside,” Says Boaz Sharabi,
Often referred to as Israel's soul
Singer,
otund and cheerful, Boaz is still
slowing from the success of his duet
with Shoshana Damari, “To Sing
with You,” which has taken this
Tather unlikely duo all over the
Sountry.
T've always loved and admired
Ty ever since 1 was a child,” says
Sharabi; now 40. ‘There was no
television in those days and only a
W radio stations. When 1 was a
kid, Shoshana was already a great
is bev arian so distant and un-
i ce. reamed of singin;
With her one day,” ἫΝ
6. dream came true this year
the decision to do the duet,
marking the first time Damari has
. Ver sung in concert with another
Singer,
. Growing up in a family of 10 chil-
; Ὁ : ly of 10 chil
τὸν in the Yemenite quarter of Tel
: tee there was no opportunity for
© musically talented Boaz ta learn
Ὁ play an instrument -- even if he

oe FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1987

Once more, with feeling

Israel's

Ἔχ

‘soul singer Sharabi - also composer of ‘over 100 songs.

THE JERUSALEM POST MAGAZINE

had wanted to.

“I nevec had the patience to sit
and learn and to this day, 1 can't
read or write music. When I collabo-
rate with a lyricist, ¥ play the music
for him onto a tape, But I came from
a deeply religious family and in the
synagogue, our prayer is a sort of
music, As ἃ small boy I used to sing
the Tora reading and translate it
into Aramaic, and I'm sure my
childhood experience helped me to
sing right.” .

Twenty years ago, Boaz travelled
around the world with the Carmon
performing group which was dedi-
cated ta bringing Israeli culture to
the Diaspora. His particular act was
playing the tambourine, two record-
ers a: and a xylo-
phone made out of bottles filled to
different Sevels.

“Tt was a great experience,” he
laughs, thinking back.

COMPOSER OF over a hundred
songs, Sharabi spent several years in
America and believes that going
abroad is often necessary to stjmu-

late the creative process: "1 you sit
tao long here you start to repeat
yourself. ! don’t blame any artist
who wants to go abroad. A creative
person needs to be epen to other
influences."

He made a dramatic comeback, to
the country and the local scene, a
few years ago, playing the singing
prisoner in the brilliant locally-made
film Behind the Wails, Theatrically,
it wasn't a difficult part: All he had
to do was play himself, a singer and
composer who lives for music. (One
must hasten to add, however, that
Sharabi has never been a convict).

Currently, Boaz, who also likes to
paint (‘People who know my work
say it is somewhere between ab
stract and surrealistic’), is working
on an album of songs written by
Moshe Wilensky, a composer he
greatly admires, and continues wril-
ing songs for other top Israeli
singers.

“My only wish," says the jovial
troubadour, "15 to have others sing-
ing my songs -- and to sing them
mnyself."

¢

Sanz

N . E «+ Ts

NEWS FROM

A Φ e y .Φ Α

An Interview With

Sigmund & Irene Freundlich

The Sigmund and Irene Freundlich Department of Urology
Designated Founders’ Award Recipients - 12th Annual Dinner

Sigmund Mreundlich isa New York businessmen why lives with his wife irene ne:Kain,
on a quiet sivel in Hrooklyn's δι δὴ section, hough unusstaning in appeannice, Mr,
ἀδ λῆς, Mreunilich: lead anything but nice boring lines, Proundlich ἐς CoChaimrn of the
Hound of the American Priencs af Sanz Metical Center, a member of the Presidium of the
Atrusalem Geriatric Home, and a meniber of the Boant of Caremors of Kollel Shonnei
Havkamot, as well as being one of the majur proponents behind the construction of

Q: You have given a substantial portion of your lime and
resources fo help many outstanding causes. Why?

A: I guess [ try to help just as my father did. In fact, 1
recently came across ἃ collection of rabbinic responsa of
pre- World War I Europe which mentions my father,
ΖΕ, by name and describes his position as the president
of the Kehilah. 1 can't even begin to tell you of his
countless sacrifices on behalf of the Hungarian
community. Helping is a large part of our heritage and
that's what being a practicing Jew is all about.

Q: Why Sanz Medical Center?

A: Simply because it's a wonderful institution, doing a
job no one else does. When I first became invalved with
the hospital, perhaps eight years ago, I contributed a
heart monitor. It felt very good to do that. And now that 40,000 - 50,000
people are helped each year by the hospital, what can I say other than it
feels exceptionally good to be a part of it.

Q: Is there any special reason that you chose to dedicate the Department
of Urology at Sanz Medical Center?

A: Even though we were most impressed and partial to the newbom
units, we sponsored the Department of Urology because that’s what the

The Sigmund and Irene Freundlich Department of Urology

A Promising Beginning...

It isestimated that more than 50 percent of males over the age of 60 have difficulty in
eliminating fluids because of prostate problems. Still, in Israel, patients may have to
wait months, even as long asa year, to receive much necded treatment and surgery, But
there are two developments afout which may dramatically change the lot of these
patients for the better,

The first is the opening of The new Freundlich Urology Department at Sanz Medical
Center. Perhaps the greatest contribution this new service Is likely to make will be to
promptly treat patients who would otherwise have to take a place on the long waiting
lists of other overburdened institutions.

‘The second development is the appointment of Dr. Sholom Katz as the chairman of ;
Urology at Sanz Medical Center. Dr. Kalz servedas senior urologist at Tel Aviv's Ichilov .
Hospital where he was among a handful of doctors who pioneered an entirely new -

subsidized housing for the financially disadvantaged in Ramot, Jerusalem, and a well
noun supporter of @ great many important causes, brs, Freundlich not only makes it
possible for her husband to devote himselfto communal needs, but somehouw finds the time
to yet involved in her own pet projects such as the Rivka Laufer Bikur Cholim, where she
wes honored with the Aishet Chayil Award.

hospital needs most at this time. Its opening will help to
take the pressure off some of Israel's other facilities
where, I understand, there can be waiting lists as long as
six months to a year.

Q: As Holocaust survivors you and your wife must have
asked yourselves, “Why were we spared?” Is there an
answer to that?

A: There is no reason why my wife's family and my own 3
brothers and sister should not have made it too. They
should be alive today. After all, the Nazis only came to
Hungary in May of 1944, By August of that year the
Russians had thrown the Germans out. During that
Μ short period, our world as we knew it came to an end. I
. wound up in ἃ forced labor camp in Poland and my wife
suffered through the barbaric atrocities of Auschwitz.

Q: Do you feel you have a special mission to perform?

A: Everyone has a mission. And that mission is to advance the Jewish
nation. You can’t make up for the Holocaust. But we can all do our share
to help ourselves as a people. When we came to this country, even those
of us who had family here were looked upon as though we arrived from
another planet - another world, Especially in Israel, a young country, it is

easy to forget the elderly and the infirm. We dare not forget the easily
forgotten.

protocol in the treatment of enlarged prostates. Until now most of these patients could -

find comfort only through the surgical reduction or removal of the prostate; a procedure
which in some cases may cause sterility, For this reason many men delay receiving
treatment and may sometimes further endanger their health. Dr. Katz, however, has
been treating patients non-invasively with “hyperthermia”, where the prostate is
warmed through the use of a computerized microwave unit. The patient will typically
-Tecelve three to: five treatments and will recover the ability to eliminate water
jcomfortably, along with the reduction in the size of the enlarged prostate gland.
‘Although ‘this Istaeli-developed treatment is still considered experimental, and is
‘available in only four hospitals in the world, three of which are in Israel, it is expected
that upon authorization by the Israel Ministry of Health, Sanz Medical Center will offer
ἢ this dramatic breakthrough treatment to patients who qualify.

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(Continued fram page A)
Cracked-Up, he played a teenager
whose best friend dies from using
the highly-addictive drug crack.
Last week, Sburge’s most recent TV
movie, The Billionaire Boy's Club,
was aired in the U.S. He has also
had small roles in the movies Risky
Business, Vision Quest and My Sci-
ence Project.

“At first | was uncomfortable
with the idea of the part,” says the
Deyear-old actor who began his
career in New York at the age of five
on Sesame Street.

"I'm not the kind of actor I would
have imagined them to cast in the
tole - someone hunkier, sturdier and
tougher. | seem to always get the
part of the sensitive, emotional best
friend. It’s the way I am. Matt is a
sensitive hero with tremendous pur-
pose, bordering on the macho. But
that is a part of me now. In every
new role you call upon parts of your-
self that you wouldn't normally use
everyday.”

Despite his success on TV and in
films, Sharge still feels most at home
in the theatre where he learned his
craft. His mother is a Broadway cos-
tume designer and his father a pho-
tographer/artist/writer. Sbarge grew
up moving from city to city, from
play to play.

“I had ἃ Jot of weird experiences
ἃς 8 child -- we even lived on a
commune for a while. I paid the rent
sometimes from my acting and mod-
¢ling jobs. It was very erratic but
fom the unusual and hard experi-

you think of
adane.

ITS A PROMISE,

Riding the edge

is ΐ

ences I was able somehow to keep
myself together and it helped
squeeze me into a more complete
person. Acting was a way of getting
out of a tumultuous situation for
me.

“Even though I love making mov-
ies, | don’t want to go for too long
without doing a play. Theatre gets

ΡΩΝ ΘΥ

you sharp, keeps you in touch with
an audience. In film there is no audi-
ence except the crew, no continuity,
no time to build a character general-
ly. I did Hamlet with Joe Papp and
we rehearsed for eight weeks. Re-
hearsal is the most exciting time for
an actor. [t's when you can play and
experiment.

ETSI ie SEE,

Th OA

Director James Fargo (left) and producer Wolf Schmidt consult during filming at the YMCA in Jerusatem.

“But, on the other hand, movies
are a more natural medium and you
have areas of subtlety that you don't
have in the theatre, 1 get a lot of
satisfaction making movies. Here I
am making a film and spending time
in Israel, It's great."

Although his filming schedule
keeps him pretty busy, Sbarge, who

is Jewish, Nas Wied (εν seu as much af
the cou is possible. Fle was
most meaved by Jerusalem and the
Western Wall.

“Tt was the most incredible expe-
rience." be says. “Standing at the
Wall, [ felt a sense of what being
Jewish really means. Then, walking
away from the Wall 1 bumped into
four soldiers with guns. That's the
reality of Israe). So beautiful and so
painful at the same time."

The cast, crew, producer and di-
rector have experienced some of
those contrasts first hand while film-
ing here. Director Fargo says that he
has experienced difficulties shooting
in the Old City where he felt antago-
nized and in the Aqabat Jabber ref-
ugee camp where the crew was
stoned hy refugees.

“Although this is my first time
here, | know the Middle Eastern
mentality very well," says Fargo
who spent six months in Iran in 1977
making the film Caravans starring
Anthony Quinn.

“1 like people and I don't like it
when people don't like me and are
antagonislic,” says the director.
“There is a problem here but we are
not part of it and when they start
throwing rocks at us, I get angry and
want to go away. It's not worth hav-
ing someone get hurt. We're only
making a film, not curing cancer.

“But that's movie-making: Some-
times you have to go where people
don't like you.”

To spread this philosophy among
the crew, Fargo has had T-shirts
made up that read, “Relax, it's only
amovie.” Qo

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JERUSALEM MUSEUMS

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TO the israel museum, jerusalem

OPENING EXHIBITIONS

Tues. Dee. 1,4 pm - Tho Stiegtitz Collection: Masterpieces in Jewlah Ast. 300 rare
places ranging mainly from the 15th - 19th centurios (Sparta. Gallery)

Tuas. Doc. 1, 4 pm - OPENING OF RENOVATED GALLENIES: Chatcollihic ἃ Early
Canaanite (Bronze)

EXHIBITIONS
“Father Serloa": Nurlt David. Ayula Zacks Abtamoy Βαμα)

Dosign: inna Goo, Iron Furnitusa: Ornpoal fureturs desis (i nlevek y λίην Εν μα
fd Pie ΠΤ

Photographa: Boaz Tal. Cen
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Captive Droam: Jorusulan 1967 Photangaiphs {με ΠΝ
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jalden Mumorias of the Holy Land. Jeneolry (Eotrane a Pave),

Gestiva pind ching Ην μέλιτι eyeduteon (Naty Obl ΒΔ τη ¢
Emphusls: Arioh Aroch, Michael 0
Edomite Shrine Liscuve
Nowa In Antlyultios '87 -
Speci Exhiblta

Νόμον, 1087: Sculpture, Maydalenn Abakonowicz (dilly Hen ΛΗ Garon)

Prigstly Bunoulctlon on Silver Scrolle (Nene Hy Seriya Mavihor).

PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS OF ARCHAEQLOGY, HERITAGE, ETHNIC ART AND
SHAINE OF THE BOOK WITH THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS.

MUSEUM HOURS
‘Suts. Mon, Wod. Thurs. 10 am - 5 pm; Tues. 4 - 10 pm; ri. Sat, 10 ant- 2pm (Tues.: Shino
of to Book and Art Garden: 10 am - 10 pm}; Library: Sun, Mon. Wod. Thurs. 10 am - 8

pm, Tues. ὁ - 8 pmy Graphics Study Room: Sun. Mon. Wed. Thurs. Fri. 11 am - 1 pm;
Tues. - 89m.

GUIDED TOURS (IN ENGLISH)

Main Museum -- Sin. Mon. Wed Thurs. Fri. 11 ain, Sun 3 pm, T1959. 4:30 pm,
Shsing of tho Book ~ Sun, 1:30 pm, Tuas. 3 pin,

Archagology Galleries -- Mon. 3 μην, Wed. 1:30 pm. Horilage — Thurs. 3 pin.

ALL ACTIVITIES IN HEGREW UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED

SPECIAL EVENTS

Sal, Noy, 28, 11 am: Gallary Talk, Wondrous India (Youth Wig)

Gat Nov, 28, 6.30 pm: El Viento Cantn — Song & Dance from tho Andes (Museum
uiiignum)

Tuxs Doc. ?, 4 pn: Opaning Exhibition, Tha Stogtitz Collection (Sparius Gallery)

fuca: Nou 24, 4 pm. Opening of Renovated Chaicolithlo ἃ Early Canaanite (Bronze)
alleries

Tuas. Dac. 1, 5pm: Gatlary Talk, The Stiagiitz Confection — Haya Benjamin, Exhibition Curator

(Sporlus Gallery)

Tuas. Doc. 1, 6.15 pm: Gallary Tatk, Wondrous India - Marie Shek (Ruth Youth Wing)

FILM CLUB (in English or with English subtitles)

ΕΠ. Nov. 27, 2 pm, and Sat. Nov. 28, 7 ἃ 9.15 pm: "Forbidden Relations” (Hungary 1983)
Thurs. Dec. 3, 7 &9.15 pm: “A Long Way Homa” (USA 1982).

YOUTH WING (Hours samo as Museum)

Wondrous india — Puppots, games, toys, videos and participatory activites,
Puppets & Story Hour — Tuss. 4.30 pm, Pioture Book Program (in English) Wed, 4 pm.
Falnsteln Recycting Room: Mon. Wed. 2 - 5 pm, Tues. 4 - 7 pm; Man. 3 - 4 pm Frae
Warkehop with Michal Ban Dov (in Hebrew); Wed. 3 - 4 pm Free Workshop (in English),
“MIX” Resnick Teachers" Training Center (Tal, 698260 for detells).

Youth Wing Library: Sun., Man,, Wed., Thurs, 2 - 6 pm; Tues. 4 - 7 pm.

THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL (ROCKEFELLER) MUSEUM
Sun, - Thurs. 10. am - 5 pin. Fri. Sat. 10 am - 2 pm.

Quided tour In English: Sun, & Wed. 11 am.

Cruaader Art — Latin Kingdom Οἵ Jerusalem gout

Animaig in Anctent Art: Tho Loa Miidanberg

PALEY CENTER — Exhibition: Traditional Arab Handiorafis

TICHO HOUSE

7 Harev Kook Stree}. (Hours samo o3 Musoum. Closad Saturdaya and Holldays).
Parmanant axhibition of Anna Ticho’s works,

Exhibition o! Dy, Ticho's and 110 9:80] Musoum'a Hanukkah Lamp Callecilons

Tho Museum keeps lis cloora open with tha holp of Its irlands:
Nov. 22-20 Kurot Foundation

Ticketa tor Saturday avallatito in ndvance al the Musaum and al the Kin'im tickat agency,
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SPITTING IMAGE

D'vora Ben Shaul

THE GREEKS call the plant “spit
in your eye," and in Hebrew it's
known us yaroket hehumor - donkey
spit. In English, it is the spitting
cucumber, a plant with one of na-
ture’s most devious ways of dispers-
ing seeds.

The plam, a member of the cu-
cumber family, is a low-growing
bushy clump with pointed, hairy
leaves that are rather thick and al-
most insignificant little yellow flow-
ers. It grows wild in most parts of
Israel, both in fields and in the cities
in empty lots and along roadways.

The fruit of this plant is a smallish
cucumber-like pod, more roundish
than elongated, and when green it
droops parallel to the stalk like the
head of a resting swan. When the
fruit ripens, it becomes filled with
liquid and the pressure gradually
raises the pod to a position where it
is at right angles with the stem.

At this point, the pod is almost
ready to burst and the attachment of
the fruit to the stem weakens. Once
it ripens and fills with liquid, the fruit
is poised like ἃ hair trigger and the
Er pees touch sends the pod flying
off for several metres while trailing ἃ
jet of liquid behind it. It is this
explosive escape of liquid that gives
the spitting cucumber its name.

ALL THIS, of course, is to increase
the possibility of propagation. Since
the clumpy plant usually covers 8
fairly large area, there would be lit-
tle point in dropping the seeds
where they ripen: There is no space
for them ta grow, and this plant, like
so many others, seems to secrete
a substance that prevents new secds.
from germinating at that spot.
Hence the inspired device of ἐν
‘closing the ripe seeds together with
a protective cover and a self-con-
tained water supply in what migh!
be described as an unsophisticated
version of an, unguided missile.
‘These jet-propelled pods are often
1 thrown far from the mother plant,
landing several -- sometimes #5
much as a dozen or so -- metres
away; and if the ground is on a slope.
they may then roll even fur:
ther, thus dispersing the seeds and
increasing the possibility that at
least some of them will find favoure-
ble conditions for germination.
οὐ The plant has one other advan:
1 age over many field plants: er
thing from sheep ‘and goats {0 ᾿
sects and caterpillars seem to find it
taste (a really vile kind of bitter will
a persisting aftertaste) so unattrac:
_tive that they simply leave it alone.
have never seen a spitting cucumber
plant that showed any sign whatso-
ever of having been nibbled or oth-
‘}-erwise damaged by animais.

Theatre Naomi Doudai

MABAT LE*AHOR (Looking
Back). Written and performed by
Yankele Yaukobson. Beit Ariella,
Tel Aviv. SA’AROT HAZAHAY
(The Golden Efatrs). Teatron Ha-
karon, (The Train Theatre). Yad Le-
banim, Tel Aviv.

“ONCE UPON a time, children,
there was a little town called Tel
Aviv. Hanukka came there too,
once every year. And sometimes,
with a little luck, so did the
circus..."
Today, I'm afraid, it is children’s
theatre that threatens to take its
. The avalanche has already
started. Hayarkon Puppet Theatre,
Teairon Limudi (Educational The-
atre), Teatron Hakiseh (Armchair
Theatre) are among the shows that
style themselves part of greater pro-
jects, some sponsored by public
bodies, some supported by their
own shadows. For the most part, the
only official agencies behind their
pretentiqus blurb seems to be their
own PR. Which only goes to show
that, as elsewhere in our tiny state,
when any new enterprise shows
signs of commercial success, there
are at least another 10 ready and
lined up to take off and share in the
gains and the glory.
The two shows singled out here
were the first in a long line of invita-
tions. As to all the others that will

avalanch

r
Yankele Yaakobson — innocent, innocuous,

YANKELE YAAKOBSON'S is of-
fered to adults and teenagers. In it, interesting.
he literally “looks back,"’ not in an-
ger but in a surfeit of self-indulgent
nostalgia, through the medium of
his own writing and performing,
and alas, evidently his own direc-
tion. A public stamp (Tel Aviv Mu-
nicipality Education, Youth and
Culture Section) sets its seal on οἵ story-telling.
what proves to be a stuffy standard,

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, maudlin memories of Mulabbis.

doubtless solicit your participation and a story with little sparkle.
too, you might be well advised to
wait till the various education au-
thorities give them their pedagogic
blessing before you decide to try

It is all about a small settlement
called Mulabbis, which was later to
develop into the town of Petah
Tikva. It is a place with maudlin
memories for many, and Yaakob-
son's are innocent, innecuous, but
not in any way outstandingly

While 1 cannot talk for sentimen-
tal ofd-timers who grew up in similar
surroundings, neither can I see to-
day’s computer-tamed teenagers be-
ing turned on by these bland bana-
liues, or gripped by Yaakobson’s
self-deprecating, understated style

There are only too many lone

walves these days whe try to make if

in sole sorties inte: monudrania.

Why do they du if? Ego trips, bore-
8

dom, frustration, or are many of
them, like Yaukobson, goud actors
denied goud parts?

py τηκενα, THIS CRITIC has some trouble

taking the train to Jerusalem to see
the Train Theatre. So when the
Train came to Tel Aviv, there was
nothing for it but to turn up at Yad
Lebanim, where they offered a
“marathon,” a mighty big word for
four short shows. The one 1 sampled
was also in the story-telling mode,
pitched, I thought, for teeny-wee-
nies, though the programme adver-
tises “six to 12."

1 suppose different children re-
spond differently to the various
ranges of what adults call imagina-
tion, The child in me, though she
fell there might be magic in the lady
in the romantic, green silk gown
(Ronnie Nelkan), in the set woven
out of golden strands into a compli-
cated kind of cat's cradle, did not
see it materialize in the manipula-
tion of the finger-puppets or the telf-
ing of the Grimm Brothers’ tale.
The puppetry technique reminded
me of the five-a-side football game
we once played by the open fire on
winter evenings -- though with far
more dexterity and spirit.

As to the story, this was the one

about it greedy king who gives away
his daughter on condition that the
suitor filehes three pold Lairs off the
head of a monster -- τι scrumptious,
red-satin-faced devil, full-size hand-
puppel, and the only doll of them all
that really made the magic work for
ine. The rest, with badly-painted,
worse-lit props, failed to tickle my
fancy or arouse my fantusy, Only in
the final episode, when the euphoric
couple, wreathed in happiness and
golden glitter brought things ta a
beglamoured end, did 1 feel my
mouth open in an exclamatory Oh!

To be perfectly fair, it is prabable
that on their home ground, within
the precincts of the converted rail-
way carriage that was originally
their artistic base, these peaple pre-
sent their skills and vision with more
panache.

When it comes to any larger
space, under conditions approach-
ing adult theatre, they would do well
fo bear in mind two points. First,
that their voices have to be properly
projected to carry beyond the sec-
ond row. Secondly, that to start dis-
mantling the.set with the junior au-
dience hopefully still caught up in
the magic, and not yet permitted to
disperse, must be the most illusion-
shattering, maybe even dream-
awakening, crime that can be perpe-
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SOME YEARS AGO), a couple of
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Underground Ciuide ws Jerusalem. {8
Wie not, as one might expec, an
expose of hashish dens and other
centres of vice, but a simple cata
logue of goods and services.

For all that, the guide was aptly
tamed, forin Jerusslem, even the
Tet prosaic of shops or cafes fem
to be located in hidden corners,
away from the public eye.

This partular restaurant, for ex-
ample. is tobe fount αἰ eppe-
site the Mal Yetn
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ous sprinkling of deep green, fresh
olive oil, The pittot served with it
were hot, even if their heat came
from reheating and not from their
original oven.

Served alongside were a small
dish of a very hot green sauce, a dish
of mildly hot Turkish salad, a plate
of pickled beets and a selection of
pickles, olives and hot peppers.

My companion entered into the
spirit of the place a bit more than I
had by trying the “foot soup,” a
thick, gelatinous hot broth with sev-
eral pieces of calf's foot swimming
about in it. This was admirably sea-
soned with cumin, turmeric and
garlic.

This was an especially welcome
dish αἱ this time of year, when win-
ter is hegining to rear its bitter head.
] must note also that this is one of

8. the few reasonably-priced Middle

tern restaurants 1 know in the
ital where a fierce wind blowing
outside is not immediately felt

= inside.

With a few exceptions, the menu
represents standard Mickle Easiern
fure. :

am ont reviewing, for my first
course. Usually Tam anxious to try
dishes which are a little more out of
the ordinary.

Whatever my reasons for tryingit,
the humous was smooth and fresh
and came [0 the table with a gener-

SO STANDARD, in fact, that F
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Thus we tried un order of lamb
shishlik - three spits with Pieces
of reasonably lean, and for the most
part tender, lamb. It was ἃ sign of
sophistication that the meat was
pinkish, juicy and not overdone,

Alas, we have entered an erg
when a restaurant mixing its own
kebabs feels obligated to describe
them on the menu as “home-made,”
in order to distinguish them from
the things produced by packing
plants.

These kebabs, in the form of pat-
ties, had been mixed with onion and
parsicy. The meat had been ground
a little too finely for my taste, caus-
ing an unnecessary solidity of tex-
ture, but other than that they were
quite tasty.

With the meat, we shared a salad,
an old-fashioned local one with tiny,
perfect cubes of tomato and cucum-
ber. The salad cume unseasoned,
bul with a couple of wedges of lem-
on on the side.

There were no desserts on the
menu, so we finished with a cup of
mint tea and a glass of well-made
Turkish coffee. With our meal we
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_ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1987

sSproductions are in Hebrew unless other-
slestated.

jerusalem

{ZEN ABOVE ALL SUSPICION -
stout a police commissioner whu tests his
stihty lo remain above suspicion even alter
wmmitling a murder. Adapted and
anced by Aharon Almog. A Neveh
{κάκ Theatre production. (Jerusalem
Theatre, Rebecca Crown, Tuesday, 4:30
ἐπ)

(HAMDO AND SON -- Trugi-comedy ab-
οἱ teu street sweepers and their night
peaney through the streets of astrange cily
iaceach of justice. (Jerusulem Theatre.
Uk Theatre, tomorrow, 9 p.m.)

PANGS OF THE MESSIAH - By Motti
Lumer. About a family living in a Gush
Foupim settlement in Samaria. Peace
τὴν between Israel and Jordin lead to
cafes between the niembers, splitting
πὰ υπὶν the community but the family us
ad. ACameri Theatre production. (Sher-
wer Thealre, Wednesday, Thursday, 8:30)
fm]

RATHUNT ~ By Peter Torini. Sucial satire
vamunicipal garbage dump. (Khun, Mun-
dy. Tuesday, 8230 p.m.)

SPRING AWAKENING -- By Frank Wede-
Ind About adolescence and a group of
typ and girls torn helween purental and
wcielal pressures and their uwn impulses.
(khan, Wednesday, Thursday, 8:30 p.m.)

Td Aviv area

A'S SUMMER ~ Monudrama with
Gi Almagor, based on un extract from
‘taulobiography. ‘The 10-yeur-uld diugh-
τι οἱ Holocaust survivurs comes home
fm boarding school tv spend the summer
sh her insane mother. A Beit Liessin/
thifa Municipal theatre production,
dveced by Ttzik Weingarten. (Beit Lies-
to. Thursday, 9 p.m.)

{HOCOLATE HORSES -- Written and
by Motti Auerbueh. ‘The story ofa

jeung couple's effort to start a new life

ier surviving the Holocaust. (Neveh
α fomorrow, 9 p.m.)

UFFICULT PEOPLE -- A Habimah

thar Production about an English Jew

: visls Jerusalem and returns home with

posible husband for his sister. ‘The

p between the couple revolves

wo auestions ‘of truth and lies, and how

1. with dignity in this world. (Habi-

\ Meskin, tomorrow, 9 p.m,; Sunday
Thursday, 8:30 pal,

1ugCTOR IN SPITE OF HIMSELF -
τοῖς ἀα μεῖς Prin the state of

» Written in Sct in a preseni-
Spt in this Khan ‘Theatre produc.
ρας πιο by Ada Ben Nachum.
on * Dan Ronen. (Beit Liessin, tomor-
haath wesday, 8:30 p.m.; Tuesday.

[ HYMNOS — p i i

- By Hungarian playwright

=e Shwajda. Heavy drama s60ur κα

de ‘Couple brutalized by hard work and

-{Tzavia, Wednesday, 10:30 p.m.)

JiNny GOT

HIS GUN -- By Dahon

Timbo, About ἃ 20-year-old us. soldier

me during WWI, With Itzik Wein-

(Tzavta, Tuesday, 5 p.m.)

ΕΜΑΙΝΤΈΝΑΝΟΕ ΜΑΝ - Comedy by

τῇ his ae man's relationships

Y Σ girlfriend. (Hadar

᾿ Ι el, Beit Frankfurt, tomorrow, 9 p.m.)
Mon

FesjGHT REVIEW — Winner of Acre
td tenes ACO Award. About the life
ttre erie of'a Tel Aviv coupfe, she a
Stee. New he a member of the security
fa Spmj ee Τεάρα, tonight, 10; Mon-

yy 7

we ANS ~ Interesting things huppen

te orphan eeaat man enters the lives of

| Director living on the fringe of society.
Hechal ee tam Eldad. (Kfar Sava,

τες τ atarbut, tomorrow, 8:30 p.m.)

PATIO — Short play by J. Heifner;
Olvenka, monologue by Chekhov, directed
by Gezu Partos. By Thy 8] Studio, In
English. (1 Tiberias, Thursday, 9 pm.)

RAT HUNT -- Sec J‘iem. (Halon, Mofet.
tomorrow, 9 p.m.}

THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES - Molicre's
marvel of comedy aboul Arnolphe. a
pedant so scared of femininity that he
imprisons a little girl and “trains” her for
the job of wife. A Habimah Theatre pro-
duction, directed by Laslo Marton. (Hubi-
mah, Rovina, tomorrow, 0:45 and 9:30
p.m.; Sunday through Thursday, 8:13}.
p-m.; Monday, 5:30 p.m. also.)

Haifa a

BEWARE MEMORIES! - A satirical
cabaret written and performed by Shimon
Israeli, based on his experiences while
appearing before soldiers during Israel's
wars. A Haifa Municipal Theatre produc-
tion, directed by Ilan Toren. (Theatre
Club, tomorrow through Monday, 9 p.m.)

LES MISERABLES -- A Cameri Theatre
musical production of Victor Hugo's

Jerusalem

YARON MARGOLIN DANCE COM-
PANY - Presents “Cursed Women.” three
works inspired by poems of Charles Baudc-
laire. Choreography: Yonat Dalesky.
Yaron Margolin. Music: Satie, Gesualdo,
Cesar Franck. The dances include nude
scenes. Not recommended for youth under
16. Gerusalem Theatre, Rebecca Crown,
today, 2:30.)

Pains of adolescence in ‘Spring Awakening’ at the Jerusalem Khan, (Yochi Lang)

Ea

Jerusalem

ISLAMIC JEWELRY ~ From the 7th to
the 19th century, including the Harari
Collection, probably the mast comprehen-
sive show of its kind anywhere. “Till Jan. 20.
(Mayer Institute for Islamic Art. 2 Pal-
mach, Tel. 961291.)

THE STIEGLIFZ COLLECTION — argu-
ably the workl’s rarest and bes! Judaica.
From Man. {Israel Museum)

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LIAS LALAQUNIS - Jewelry inspired by
antique themes and images (Carter Entr- -
ance Pavilion, Isracl Museum.)

BOAZ TAL = Photugraphs (Cohen Pavi-
lion, Israel Museum.)

NURIT DAVID -- Paintings: the *Father"
Series. (Israel Musicum.)

ἽΝ LADDA — A new dsunialtic in-
known New York en-
il mid-Dee. (Billy

ETHIOPIAN ARTISTS —Vorking in clay.
Till Nov. 27. (House of Quality, 12 Dezech
Hebron.)

FRANZ BERNHEIMER — Drawings,
sculptures by young Haifa artist DORON
ELIA. Till Nov. ἅν. (Nora Gallery, 9
Ben-Muimon Ave. Tel. 32848.)

JENNY LUSTIGIER -- pastels and draw-
ings. (Dehel Gallery. Ein Kerem. Tel.
417785.)

HEDI TARAYAN - Works from 1987.
(Aika Brown Gallery, Yad Hanitzim, Tal-
pict.)

JAN MENSES = Jewish symbolism by
Dutch-Csnadian now working in Safad.
(Mayanot Gallery, 28 King George.)

TIM GIDAL - Photo impressions of the
Dead Sea, 1937-87. (Fisher Holl, Mishke-
not, Yemin Moshe.)

Et ce Tt eee ;
PINHAS COHEN-GAN — picto-idea-
phonographic paintings. Till Dec. 10. (Gal-
lery Gimel, 4 King Shlomo, Tel. 227636.)

SHLOMO KABAKOV -- “Remnants From
A Desperate Culture,” photographs.
(American Cultural Centre, 19 Keren
Hayesod.)

famous novel about the Parisian under-
world. Translation by Ehud Manor. With
Shlomit Aharon, Tal Amir, Riki Gal, Tiki
Dayan, Avi Toledano, Lior Yayni, Albert
Cohen and Dudu Fisher. (Haita Theatre.
tomorrow, 8:30 p.m.; Sunday, 4:30 und
8:30 p.m.)

WHEN WE ARE MARRIED - A Haifa
English Theatre production. 1, B. Pricst-
Iey’s comedy pokes fun at life in Yorkshire
same 80 years ago. In English. (Haifa
Museum, Thursday, 8:30 p.m.)

Beersheba ᾿

‘THE WILD GEESE -- By Henrik Ibsen.
The story of two Norwegian families.
(Beersheba Theatre, tomorrow, 8:30 p.m.)

Others

ΙΝ THE KITCHEN: Man is Not a Bird -
Written and directed by Ruth Hazan. A
Kibbutz Theatre production. A day in the
kibbuiz kitchen and whal happens to
women who are “thrown™ together. {Shov-
al, tonight; Moran, tomorrow, [Ὁ p.m.)

MOSHE KRON - sensitive monochrome
drawings. Till Nov. 29. (Debel Gallery, Ein
Karem).

MOSHE GERSHUNI - convincing new
minimalist pcp ay paintings on paper.
‘Till Dec. 12. (Bezalel Academy Gallery, 68
‘Yirmeyahu.)

LEA GOLDBERG - paintings by famous
author, till Jan. 5; SHAKER — paintings;
SIMA SLONIM - recent abstractions;
NURIT INBAR-SHANI -- “States”, oils.
Till Dec. 15. (Artists House, 12 Shmuel
Hanagid).

Tel Aviy afea

MARC CHAGALL - 100th anniversary of
his birth is marked with an exhibition of the
collection of Marcus Diener, 1 personal
friend of Chagall. 55 works, mostly
gouaches and watercolours. {Tel Aviv
Museum, King Saul Bivd.)

MENASHE KADISHMAN - Painting and
monumental sculpture of Menashe Kadish-
man shown in conjuncilon with the inau-
guration of his sculpture “The Sacrifice of
Isaac” in the Museum piaza on Nov. 9. (Tel
Aviv Museum, King Saul Blvd.)

BERNARD REDER - Retrospective ex-
hibit of popular expressionist sculptor to
commemorate 90 years since his birth. Til!
Dec. 2. (Herzliya Museum, Yad Lebanim.)

NAFTALI SALOMON - Oils, acrylics and
drawings. Till Dec. 26. (Yad Lebanim,
Petah Tikva, Tel. 9223450.)

THE MAINTENANCE MAN - Sce Haifa.
(Ashkelon, Beit Ha'am, Monday, 8:30
p.m.)

Tel Aviv area

BATSHEVA DANCE COMPANY — “Meet
the Artist" with well-known American
dancer-chureographer David Parsons.
{Ohel Shem, Thursday, 8:30 p.m.)

THE ISRAEL BALLET -- Presents a fully-
staged production of “Sleeping Beauty,”
accompanied by the Istacl Philharmonic
Orchestra. Conductor Ze'ev Dorman.

THE DATE PALM - Its plce in the Middle
East. (Eretz Yisrael Musenm, Tel Aviv.)

AMOS RABIN - Reccit paintings. Till
Dec. ἢ (Bineth Gallery, 63 Ben Yehuda.
Tel. 222907).

MEROSE - Works 1986-87, (Julic M.
Gallery, 7 Glikson, Tel. 295473.)

E. WEISZ ~ Collages; AHARON KEIR -
vil paintings. (Kibbutz Art Gallery. 4 Nativ
Hamagzalot, Jaffa.)

ZEPORA GENDLER - “Two to thice
dimensian” sculpture. Till Dec. 7. (Herz
liya Museum, Yad Iechanim, Tel. 052-
SS1011).

GROUP OF 8 ~ Paintings following on
exhibition in Berlin 1987 (Shai Danen
Gallery, 42 Rehov Prag.)

ΠᾺΝ KE!
Art Gailery,

aR -- Flat warks.” {ΚΙ να,
Rehoy Dov Eoz.7

MICHAEL GANS -- Qibs. Froin ‘Tues. till
Dec. 9. (Shai Danan Gallery, 42 Frug.}

POLAND'S PAST - Phatos from the
Forbes Callection, Hosten. (Museum
Eretz Yisrael, Ramat Aviv.)

13 ART! FROM EIN HOD ~shww their
work in Tel Aviv. Till Dec. 4. (Painters and
Sculptors Avs., ¥ Alharizi.)

BARRY HERSHKOWITZ.- Lanilscapes in
oil pastel, pen and ink. Till Dec. 30.
{American Cultural Centre, 71 Hayarkon.)

PINCHAS COHEN-GAN -- “Ten Com-
mandments (Deculogue).” Paintings. Till
Dee. 4. (Maimad Visual Aris Gallery, 27
Pinsker.}

E. WEISS ~ Paintings. Till Dee. 10. (Tzav-
ty, 30 Ibn Gvirol. Tel. 250154.)

THE SACRIFICE OF ISAAC - in Isracli
Art; PAINTING QUOTING PAINTING --
two new shows. (Museum uf Israeli 1,
Ramat Gan, 146 Rehoy Abba Hillel, Tel.
PIN7.)

ZVIA SHEMER - paintings. (Gullcry
Ameliu Atbel, Hereliya, 38 Ben Yehuda).

REUVEN CARY ~ witercolours. (Old Jaf-
fa Gullery, 14 Simtat Mazal Aric, Old
Jaffa). εἰ

Haifa/North

ATELIER MOURLOT, PARIS -- Cullec-
tion of lithographs by famous 201h-century
artists produced in this noted workshop.
(Haifa Museum of Modern Art, 26 Shabtai
Levy, Tel. 523255.) ἐ

PINCHAS LITVINOVSKY -- Paintings.
Till end Dec. (Goldmann Gallery, Haifa.)

NAOMI NIR-AM ~ "Words and Colour."
Till Dec. £2. (Artists House, Haifa, Tel.
522355.)

JAPANESE ART — Selected works from
the collection. (Tikolin Museum, 89
Hanassi. Tel. 383554.)

HANUKKA LAMPS -- From the artist's
collection. Till Dec. 26. (Mane Katz
Museum, 89 Yale Nof. Tel. 83482.)

4. WEXLER - Oil paintings. Till Dec. 9.
(Municipal Museum, Nahariya.)

ROLAND TOPOR — Drawings and prints.
(Tefen Open Museum, Industrial Park,
Tel. 04-977977.)

THE WALLS OF FERRARA — photo show
with the cooperation of the Italian Cullural
Centre, Haifa. Till Dec. 14. (Amado Build-
ing, Technion). 2

ZYIKA ISRAEL — landscapes; NAOMI
NIR-AM ‘Words and Colour.” Both ill
Dec. 12. (Artists House, Haifa, Tel.
522355). Ξ

YIGAL TFUMARKIN -- “Homage to Vin-
cent Van Gogh.” Opening Nov. 28. (Haifa
Museum of Modern Art. 26 Shabtai Levy, . ἢ
Tel. 523255).

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16.30 - Lost in Alaska. Ab- With Maureen O'Hara and
bott ant Costello, cast as two Adolphe Monjou.
can nance firamen during
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Alaska to hulp their friond Monday

16.30 - Dangerous Moon-
light. A Polish pianist, on tour
in the U.S., longs to fight for
his country and becomes a fli-

who's having problems with
his dance-hall girl, played by
Mitzi Green.

Saturday

21.00 - Alrport 1976. The pi-
lot of a private plane has a
heart attack and crashes Into
the cockpit of ἃ Boeing 747 jet.
Charlton Heston and Karen
Black star.

Sunday

21.00 ~ Never to Love.
Strange circumstances force a

16.30 - The Last Days of
Pompeii. A peace-loving
blacksmith seoks his fortuna
as a gladiator. Preston Foster
and Basll Rathbone star.

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16.30 - Plrates of Tortuga.
A 17th-century British aire
teer is ordered to find and de-
stroy Sir Henry Morgan, a pi-
rate who has turned on: the
British. Ken Scott and Letitia
Roman in lead roles.

er with the Polish forces in
England; starring Anton Wal-
brook and Sally Gray.

PS ALAS

Thursday

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16.30 - The Gay Divorces.
Fred Astaire plays a lovesick
dancer who's pursuing Ginger
Rogers. She mistakes him for
another mén and issues a
strange” invitation.

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16.30 - The Ench
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days. The multi-cassette soap op-
eras caught on fabulously well in
the libraries, but this is the first time
that a serial as large as Roots has
been tried out locally.

ALSO FROM Hed Arizi is another
trendy offering — Fandango. In this
sometimes zany, sometimes naughty
1985 film, we follow five university
students trying to squeeze the most
out of the last carefree days of their
youth before entering the rat race
that awaits them in the real world.
Kevin Coster, Judd Nelson, Sam
Robards, Chuck Bush and Brian
Cesak star.

We.-stay on campus for a while
with Gotchal released by Channel 1-
TVK. Made in 1985, this is a not

lege spy games but then faces real

life intrigues during a European trip .

in which an older woman lures him
into trouble, The beginning is better
than the end, but video-wise, this is
not bad entertainment.

Channel 1-TVK next takes us to
the even younger student set with
Pretty in Pink. Here we have Me
Ringwald in her [986 role as a hig!
schoo! Cinderella faced with a diffi-

cult choice between two prom-

princes -- a charming, wealthy
preppy (Andrew McCarthy) and her
disarming, adoring buddy (Jon
Cryer), who, like herself, hails from
the wrong side of the tracks. In all,
it's a likeable, if at times juvenile,
coming-of-age tale.

From students, Channel 1-TVK
takes us to teachers, who can have

laugh. to understand how a director like 5

ALSO ON THE West Coast and
also released by Imperia, but differ-
ent in every imaginable way, is Big
Trouble in Little China. This 1986
film revolves around a truck driver
unfortunate enough to deliver pork
to the San Francisco Chinatown
market just in time to witness the
kidnappiung of his friend's fiancee.
This gets him embroiled in all kinds
of fantastic adventures peppered by
martial-arts exploits, supernatural
beings, esoteric Oriental beliefs and
high-tech special effects galore.
OK if you've, got an hour-and-a-
half to kill.

Imperia treats us to more exotica
in last year's Mosquito Coast. A
West Coast inventor (Harrison

Vittorio De Sica and actors like
Faye Dunaway and Marcello Mas-
troianni ever gat involved in this
glamorized trash about an Aineri-
can fashion designer's involvement .
with an Italian engineer. The distri-
buters, United King Video, claim to
be proud of this release, but the
stars and director are no doubt
ashamed.

An equally dismal United King
offering is the 1985 Volunteers, a
purported comedy about a pam-
pered American playboy who inad-
vertently finds himself serving with
the Peace Corps in Thailand, where
he tries to dictate things according
to his whims. Despite the smart-
mouthing and pseudo-iconoclastic
tone, this practically hits the pits.

Charlt i, : : a deat two episodes at a time, overly credible yarn about a wim- their own problems of the heart and = Ford) who's had it with all the ills One would assume that from here,
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monte Orchestra, in nine
perfonmiaces.

Anything su ainbiliews must in-
valve risks. and thongh the first
night (November 21} was quite con-
spicuously a success. it did ant by
any deans overcome all the
difficulties.

‘The orchestrit, for instance, was
in the pit heluw, ind though the
comductor, Ζ εἶ ἐν Dorman, was visi-

came mostly from the ‘sides of the
stage. ἢ would surely have been het-
ter to have the volume, however

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diminished, fram the central bate,

Also, since playing for ballet is
quile different frum concert perfor-
mance, itwassoon clear that music
and movement were not always well
coordinated, In the first act, the
dancers holding floral arches
seemed to ignore the time beat -- uf
was it the ather way round?

One inust hasten to add that it is
possible in Later performances such
diserepancies and some hitches (like
sinoke eozing oul befure the dream
scene) will hive been smuothed out.

The Sleeping Beauty is regarded
as the peak of 19th-century Russian
ballet, originally choreographed by
Petipa with music by Tchaikovsky,
ut since staged in various versions.
Petipa's famous features, like the

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Rese Adagio for Princess Aurora
and four suitors, has always been
preserved in some form.

Berta Yainpolsky's version has in-
corporated most of the highlights,
but they call for virtuoso perfor-
mance and, abundant as is the talent
among the Israel Ballet dancers, it
was not always sufficient to spill
over into the excitement necessary
in this batlet.

As the princess who has to sleep
for 100 years, Tae Lucking, dain-
fy as a fairy, had the glow for en-
chantment, but the choreography
went only part of the way to make
her u dazzling Aurora. [t was mostly
a matter of finc extensions -- long
Stretches of leg thal she did beuuti-
fully, and spinning turns.

TOURS

WHERE A barnlike structure has
previously served the Inbal Dance
‘Theatre as an improvised theatre at
Neveh Tzedek in Tel Aviv, it now
has a lovely litle building. with a
handsome foyer, a red-plush-cur-
tained auditorium, a studio and of-
fives. In fact, Inbal has been cele-
brating the opening of this centre
and last week completed a three-day
“season” wilh a gala for distin-
guished guests on November 19.

“Small but ours," said artistic di-
rector Sara Levi-Tanai, and there
was indeed something to be proud
of besides the new home. Four
women of the company had contrib-
uted the choreography, all of them
members of Inbal fon the past 20 of
its 38 years, and still dancing as cf-
fectively as ever.

What is even more important is
that their choreography seemed to
have come straight out of Inbal
roots, soaked in its traditions and
the pervading influence of Levi-
Tanai herself.

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Sura Zarev's “Reincarnation"
(music: Shem-Tov Levi) was strik-
ingly theatrical, showing off the
stage facilities with mysterious
“smoke” and lighting. Six groups
louking like sheaves Οἱ wheat shiv-
ered und shook until heads emerged
and their covering became many
things -- tents, clothes -- as the fig-
ures made little jumps, runs, steps,
clusters. One emerged finally with
arms free too. The idea of birth and
rebirth was stressed. Yet it was all
well within the framework of Inbal
idiom.

Malka Hadjbi's “Courtship" (mu-
sic: Ovadia Tuvia) had been per-
formed before and served as a re-
minder that Inbal and ethnic stories
can also be jolly. Its humour,
though rather naive, gave the dozen
dancers a chance to show some of
the best of Yemenite movement, in
ἃ very complicated courtship.

Ilana Cohen's “Lamentation”
(music: Shlomo Bar), a duet for two
Mourners, demonstrated extrovert

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Oriental grief. Though sincerely
conceived, it had more of posturing

than passiun, so that one was an ob-

server rather than a sharer in the
emotions. The work lacked artistic
climax, but nevertheless had its own
eloquence. "

Raheli Sella's “Welcome” (mu-
sic: her own) was of vigorous Arab
character, in costume as well as cli-
mate. The confident coordination of
mood and manner was expressed in
robust style. The style kept close to
Arab debkas, though with much
innovation. :

This was one of the most promis-
ing programmes ever presented by
Inbal outside Levi-Tanai'’s own
works, and gave great hope for In-
bal's future.

DANCER-choreographer, and now
artistic director of the Scapino Bal-
let in Holland, Nils Christe has been
here on his sixth visit. Twice he
eame as dancer with the Nether-
lands Dance Theatre, three times to
work with the Kibbutz Dance Com-

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Carabosse, the bad fairy in ‘The Sleeping Beauty.

pany. This time he set a work for the
Bat-Dor company, originally creat-
ed for the Lyons Ballet in France.

“Jeannette Ordman saw it in New
York and asked me to come," he
said in Tel Aviv. “I do less guesting
these days. Most of my works are
now for Scapino, which is moving to
Rotterdam, where we shall have a
grand new theatre." He is working
ona full-length Alice in Wonderland

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for the company.

About the work ‘Lumines-
cences™ (music: Poulenc) he said it
was what the French call “Danse
pour la danse,” dance for the sake of
dance.

“I designed it as an opening piece
for a programme," he suid. That
exactly described it as premiered on
November 9 at the Bat-Dor Theatre
το a pleasant cnough piece relying on

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Mock moves and giving attractive
opportunitics for young dancers to
exert their energies in a romantic sel
uf duets.

THE BATSHEVA company has re-
turned from Germany with u wad of
press acclaim. All the 13 perfor-
mances in Heilbronn were sold out
and the company has been invited
for a return visit next October and
also for guest performances in other
cities.

Meunwhile, the company is re-
suming its “Thursdays at Batsheva”
at the Ohel Shem Theatre in Tel
Aviv.

The next one will take place on
December 3, when American danc-
er-choreographer David Parsons
(until recently of the Paul Taylor
company) will make a guest appear-
ance not only as lecturer-demon-
strator but as dancer. He is here to
set {wo new works for Batsheva.

THOUGH THE three works pre-
sented by the Kibbutz Dance Com-
pany at the Jerusalem Sherover

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Theatre (November 18) were nat
the first performances, the occasion
deserves special comment.

What a delight to see -- or sce
again -- Rami Be'er's fantasy on
Benjamin Britten's Young Person's
Guide to the Orchestra and experi-
ence again the brilliant coordination
of sound and movement, What a
pleasure to note -- or note again --
the subtleties of Yehudit Green-
span's costumes for the
“instruments.”

This should remain a classic in the
kibbutz repertoire, and be sent
abroad to show what happens when
wonderful music combines with
imaginative choreography -- as
made in Israel.

Ivan Marko's “Birds of Heaven"
also gained with further familiarity -
- more poctic, finely structured,
beautifully danced. Nitza Gambo,
after a brief lapse of concentration
al the beginning, gave a riveting per-
formance wone and in duct with the

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BETO TD ἐν ον tea at

The art scene

Peer)

Meir Ronnen

JAN MENSES isa Duteh-burn Cu
Hitdian actistof immense capabilitics
and preat reputation Recently set-
fled in Salud. fie new makes his
debut with five senes of mane
chrome parntings and drawings ἐπὶ
paper. some in (emp afhers it
ink cor ith and wa » Mest of
them have a symbolic Jewish slant
and the Large tempers works depict
the puests within the ‘Temple.

In the Kaddish= series, Monsen
Nitsses matits suggestive Of ereavels
and imparts (ον theay the mation of
sruupS on a stage. set befure and
even within, a perspective back:
deap. The figures are suggested with
boll but sure calligraphic strokes,
but the general impression is one of
formula. ᾿

Most impressive, however, are
the large works of the ‘Tikun series
executed in tempers rich velvety
hick that is an achievement in it-
aclf. With the simplest of sophisti-
cated means, Menges minipulites
the viewer into perception of infinite
stepthy the illusion reminds me af
looking inte the wall of black mir-
tors af Bloomingdales. The drama is
almost sci-fi, set with bhick-rahed
helmeted figures that seem to have
stepped right oot of The Entpire
Strikes Back, complete with Darth
Vader Robes. The technique and
finish ure quite superb, but were the
pricsts ever us menacing as this?
(Muyanot Gallery, 28 King George).

Ἀ κα ὰ

MOSHE GERSHONI is showing
nine new oll puintings on paper
(reated as ἃ form of parchment, giv-
ing it his characteristic sickly yellow-
ish tint, As usual, he mixes plant
forms with text in the keynote ‘pic-
ture, all the works being dedicated
“to my brothers and others,"
though this time around, most of the
paintings are without any incorpo-
rated inscriptions and do very well
without them.

Gershini's latest compositions
tre bold, firm and minimal, a most
welcome development; (hey read as
well as u Franz Kline, In othor
words, they rely totally on their in-
trinsic graphic qualities. For the
most part, all that is present is a
branch ora stamen -- or even a river
στ (hut flows upwards from the left
side of the paper and out of the right
siete, with a few tendrils lonping off
it and a cloud in the sky and some-
es u Star of David, equnily flow-
* ing, below.

T van imagine some viewers find-
ing these essentially calligraphic
works trivial und sketchy, Linust say
that 1 found at least seven of them
cumnletely satisfying, (Bezatel
Acadeny Gatlery, 68 Yirmeyahu,

Jerusalem.) Till Dee, 12.

: : κὰκ ἃ ἢ
PINHAS COMLEN-GAN never
seems to work unything through
quite ta its end. His Eatest series of
smialt paintings are in the contempa-
rary German neo-expressionist

manner, complete wih lively and
pleasant colons lnarmoges. Bul they
are in the wrong scale, for the bold,
πα ον figures would be far
more effective in inuch larger
vines. Some of the composition

hen-Gan doesn't seem te consider
the possibility of misses. Putting
concept hefore composition every
line, be pays scat attention to whal
happeus to a brush stroke ura
shape, though he is a master of the
avcidental-on-pnipose effect. Co-
hen-Cian is the type of thinking art-
ist who strews hurdles in front of
him as he runs, but often fails to
clear them. One wishes he would
take cwo ar three of the better works
in this series ( which he insists on
Presenting as ἃ group ) and work
them up into full-scale, well-
worked-out paintings. (Gimel Gal-
lery, 4 King Shiomo, J'lem). Till
Dec. 10,

kek

TV IS BY now a well-documented
fact (hat the Holocaust not only left
ils mark on survivors, but on their
children born later, as well. Svlf-
taught Moshe Kron 39, makes his
debut with seme extremely sensitive
druwings that are lundscupes of
Memories, the recollections of the
forests in which his parents sur-
vived. There aren't, thank gouod-
hess, any overt references to the
Holociust. [tis merely that these
deep, and deeply persanal, feelings
huve given rise tu a series of barely
recognizable lindscapes in which
the texture and touch are more im-
portant than any attempt at descrip-
tion. In some cases, Kran takes rub-
bings from walls to provide ἢ sort of
textural frottage and he employs a
mixture of charcoal and conte cray-
on. He also uses a soft pencil,
though the latter is often foreign to
the natural affinity between the oth-
er two mediums. Another tool is the
eruser, employed to create rhythmi-
cal strokes and define planes. The
compositions are somewhat tenta-
tive, but in several cases are con-
vinving. A promising start. (Debel
Gallery, Ein Kerem, Tel. 417785),
Till Nov, 29. x

kk ἃ

FOR THLE past 50 years mumerous
notible photographers and count-
less others huve been clicking away
at peeling walls covered with peeling
posters.lt woukd take u genius to
regenerate the genre, or even the
mere recent one of making art out
of family albums und snapshots.
Shiono Kabakay is no genius and
his often excellent studies mide in
the tess salubrious quarters of New
York and Tel Aviv are often ex-
tremely well done, without adding
anything τὼ our perception of mnt-
ters. Perhaps conscious of this, Ka-
bakev, a free-lance, photogripher

¢ ind film procticer, has created some

messuge collages of his awn, but
they ore tao static und abyious to
compete with his sensitive selections

. of (he real thing. (American Cultur-

al Centre, 19 Keren Mayesod). 0

Moshe Kron: drawing (Debel Gallery, Ein Keren

enigmatic

τι io

Jan Menses: tempera from Tikun series (Mayan

an

.

Merose: overly

οἱ, J'lem).

Angela Levine

RYORAM MEROSE, a sabra who
divides his time between teaching at
Bezalel, Jerusnlem, and in Ham-
burg, Germany, where he now lives,
shows considerable ingenulty in
dreaming up another new scenario
to act as a vehicle for his enigmatic
pictorial language. aS Pose
Relinquishing prosuic subject

matter (his previous. show -com-

prised “action” images of various
professions, with his figure acting
out euch role), Merose hus now re-
treated into αὶ make-believe world of
erotic fantasies, distant inexplored
territories and cltadels and kings,

In the flamboyant charcoaf draw-

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Oso graphic line.
Humour of a heavy Victorian

kind surfaces throughout -- for ex-
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e lo cross a ridiculously
mal of water, or another who
lies ina (ub playing with a toy boat. .
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THREE VERY different’ shows
have recently opened at the Herzliya
Museum. In the library are superb
pine-and-cane models of 17th and
18th century Polish wooden syna-
gogues, crafted by Moshe Verbin of
Kibbutz Yakum. Together with old
photographs and architectural draw-
ings, they detail the appearance, in-
teriors and furnishings of some 20
well-known examples from among
the 100 buildings of this type de-
stroyed during the Holocaust. This
atlractive show was seen earlier this
year at the Mane-Katz Museum,
Haifa. (Till Jan. 28.)

Zippora Gendler, an artist who
received a lute, unorthodox train-
ing, but nevertheless has a number
of recent public sculptures to her
credit (in Tel Aviv, Migdal Hn’'e-
mek, Safad and clsewhere), shows
five abstract works in the garden of
the museum. Gendler's smooth,
geometric shapes are intriguingly
ambiguous. From the front they ap-
pear weightless and flat, with their
component parts, like pieces in a
giant jigsaw-puzzle, aligned but not
touching. Yet, as the viewer changes
position, these forms appear to
move away from each other, setting
up solid, three-dimensional volumes.

Gendler’s two monumental
Ee particularly the one shaped
ike a giant obelisk, have consider-
able presence, However. her small
«works are unsuited for the open air.
(Till Dec. 17.)

Also on show are ceramics by
three young artists, recent graduates
of the Bezalel Academy, whom Cu-
trator Yoav Dagon considers to have
special promise: Yifat Shmaya, Udi
Even and Eva Avidar. The last two
are recent. recipients of Sharett
scholarships from the America-Isra-
el Foundation. .

Shmaya shows a set of six aug-
mented columns, each varying
slightly from its fellow by subtle
varjations in form, texture and sur-
face decoration.

Even combines innovative de-
sign with a genuine feeling for his-
torical continuity in glazed blue and
white bowls with the appearance of
ancient cult objects. These are deco-
rated with occasional cow-heads and
supported by wooden struts or alter-
natively, balance on the backs of
small bovine statues. ᾿

Avidar makes expressive studies
in clay of old people. 1 particularly
admired her depiction of an old
woman with her head protruding
from her bent body like that of 8
tortoise peeping out from its protec-
tive shell. (Till Feb. 1). 5

Zippora Gendler: "'Cathedral”

"(Herzliya Museum).

Interview Eli Karev

“A MUSICAL performer should
combine three artists in one: one
who can hear before you play (uot
the other way around), another who
is aware of hosy the playing is done,
and the third who listens, somewhat
from the outside, to the procced-
ings. If what person C hears is not
what A has idealized, he has to in-
struct B how to make adjustments.
Itis a schizophrenic existence, to be
sure, yet when the three are in bal-
ance, an ecstasy is reached which
nothing can equal.”

Thus says Leon Fleisher, the cele-
brated American musician who
spent a week in Jerusalem earlier
this month. Whenever he drops by --
which, happity, is occurring with in-
creasing frequency of late -- the
pulse of the capital's musical life
quickens dramatically. During his
last stay, in addition to rehearsing
and conducting the Jerusalem Sym-
phony in three performances of a
Copland-Mozart-Brahms pro-
gramme, Fleisher conducted -- from
the piano -- three master-classes xt
the Jerusalem Music Centre.

Performers, teachers and music-
lovers from all over the country con-
verged on the elegant Mishkenot
Sha’ananim studio. Many, with mu-
sical scores in lap, marked down the
master's every suggestion. To go by
earlier experience, Fleisher'’s re-
marks are bound to remain a hot
sopic in Israel's academics and con-
servatories for months to come.

There is a good reason for that.
Very few artists in the world today
share the respect and admiration the
athletically-built, bespectacled 59-

-old American commands. His
iography is impressive: The first
public recital took place when the
are was all of six years old. At

, he won the first prize at the
Queen Elisabeth of Belgium inter-
national competition -- a historic
achievement for an American

player.

Betcher performed, repeatedly,
with such giants as Pierre Monteux
and George Szell and the records he
made with the Cleveland Orchestra
heer some 30 years ago re-
Main largely unsurpassed;

In the mid-1960s, Leon Ficisher
lost the ability to use his right hand.
Yet after an initial period of with-
drawal, the musician bounced back -
+88 ἢ performer of solo and cham-

“music repertoire for the left
hand alone, and as a conductor. He
pig pe Βοείοη: Cleveland, Pitts-

» Baltimore and other major
orchestras, ?

Musical notes

Passion for music

tury’s musical direction.

“Like Hercules, who cleaned out
the Augen stables by re-directing
the river's Naw, su these remarkable
ausical minds tidied musical stables
of the 191 century -- an almost wn-
healthy period in which the per-
former assumed more importance
than the music itself. They brought
us back to the Tora -- to the musical
text,”

Many called this an “intellectual
approach,” but there is no reason
why the brain shouldn't be com-
bined with the passion. “The more
you know what you are doing, the
freer you become in your music-
making,” says Fleisher.

What counts at first when ap-
proaching a musical composition, he
Stresscs, is the instinctive emotional
reaction. But this must be, however,
put aside for « while in an attempt to
analyse, to understind the music. Of
course, a thorough theoretical basis
is a must. For Schnabel, this stage,
too, was underlined with passion
(“even lust, perhaps, might have
had a part in it"),

Finally, bringing back the initial

‘emotional reaction, onc can now

Fleisher - ‘Somehow, here I find an awareness, a good standard.’

No lesser part of Fleisher's musi-
cal activity is his teaching. Artistic
director of the Tanglewood Music
Centre and professor at the Peabody
Conservatory in Baltimore, he has
taught master-classes at the Salz-
burg and Ravinia festivals, the New
York's Metropolitan Museum of
Art and at leading universitics the
world over.

To interview the earnest, warm
and strikingly modest musician is to
talk to a person with a deeply-root-
ed passion -- the overwhelming pas-
sion for music he inherited from his
mentor, Artur Schnabel (1882-
1951). Fleisher entered Sctnabel's

class at 10 -- the youngest pupil the
venerable pianist ever took.

“Schnabel taught the music, not
so much the student. I remember a
lesson he gave me on the opening
page, the adagio, of Beethoven's
‘Farewell’ sonata. The session lasted
three-and-a-half hours; Schnabel
gave all he had learned about this
music his entire life. When the les-
son was over, I felt drunk; I could
hardly walk.”

IT WAS SCHNABEL and conduc-
tor Arturo Toscanioi who, ine
Fleisher’s opinion, exercised the
most profound influence or our cen-

: look through new eyes of under-

standing. If the musical text does
not coincide with the fecling scenar-
io, One must change that senario.

“There are still places in the liter-
ature I do not completely under-
stand," says Fleisher.

When he left Sclinabel after nine
years (“being kicked out is the more
precise definition; be told me I must
continue on my own"), he felt “like
aman in the ocean without a raft."
Fleisher took up a piece he liked but
did not work on with Schnabel --
and slowly things started coming
back. “You see, there are principles.
applicable to many pieces. And one
should always question, I remind a
student that the opposite of what [
am suggesting may be equally true.”

For all the intensity of Schnabel's
reaction to the music, he would not
offer ready, prescriptions, Fleisher
recalls, but rather stimulate the pu-
pil’s thinking. “Once, I heard a
Schnabel record of Beethoven's
Opus 22 sonata. It was an admirable
rendition, but I snid to myself I
would do it differently. This was my
musical bar mitzva."”

Fleisher does not side with those
maintaining that since the great Ro-
mantic upheaval, piano playing has
become less exciting.

“A much greater fidelity to the
text exists, which is most welcome.
The late William Kapell, Peter Ser-

kin, Murray Perahia -- all are re-
mnarkable musicians; even if their

“road is different, there clearly is an

awareness of Schnabel in their art.”

THE PROBLEM today, according
to Leon Fleisher, is thal the teachers
mostly tell stuuients what tu do, but
not how to learn, haw to go about
making interpretive judgements.
The young people are mostly con-
cerned with instrumental efficiency,
treating the expression like a make-
up which, he says, “is saddening.”
The best young players come nowa-
days from the Far East, and while
they are physically tremendously
gifted for the instruments and their
work ethic is fabulous, they are still
lacking much.

Nor does Fleisher derive a great
deal of happiness from the state of
affairs in the field of conducting.
Having worked with Montcux and
Szell -- while still a child, he and a
friend substituted for the orchestra
in Monteux's summer school for
conductors -- Ficisher is disturbed
by music having become a business,
an industry.

“Like all industry, it can only ex-
ist if there are consumers, and tou
often the artistic demands are influ-
enced by business considerations.
There is no chance whatsoever for
classical! music to gain the audiences
of the size Rambo draws."

The great maestros of the past
would start their careers in a totally
unglamorous manner -- as conduc-
tors in small, provincial opera
houses. By the time they blossomed

— in their 405 or 50s — they had a
thorough orchestral training. To-
day, young gifted conductors are im-
mediately catapulted into the spot-
light and, “They are not given a
chance to make their mistakes.” As
a result, there are fower real au-
thorities among the leading conduc-
tors, more great organizers, “and
many more depressed orchestras."

hat counts is not that a conduc-
tor is loved and comes across as “a
great guy or gal,” but the respect he
or she is able to elicit among the 90-
plus musicians.

Fleisher's next date with the JSO
is in April, when he takes the or-
chestra on a U.S, West Coast tour.
Again, he hopes, there will be piano
master-classes at the music centre
for the pianist enjoys teaching here:
“Somehow, here I find an aware-
ness, a good standard. There is stim-
ulation, searching, openness, and I
believe your gifted youngsters will
find their own answers.” a

Choice of series

β ued from page M)
Petiod, over 30 of his works were
fblished and his name appeared on

Programmes of all the festivals

new oo alongside those of

» Berg, Weber, Stravin-
sky, Bartok and Hindemith,

© was forced to flee Nazi Ger-
many in 1933, and by 1936 he had

in Los Angeles, where he

~ famed his living writing film music,

Tenewal
, death in 1964,

ng at the beeps of South-
‘ornia and giving private les-

Non ae suffered a serious creative
during the 1940s, but enjoyed
in the 1950s and, up to his

: » Wrote seven sympho-

tes, an
~ ber wore and numerous cham-

usic is now being rediscov-

* Sted and is Rrized for its warmth,
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. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1987

THE JERUSALEM Symphony Or-
chestra IBA will give its third sub-
scription concert of the season on
December 2, 3 and 5 at the Henry
Crown Auditorium. The guest con-
ductor will be Gerard Schwarz and
the soloist, the violinist Vera
Vaidman.

Schwarz is a native of New Jersey,
a graduate of Juilliard and, among
other things, director of the “Mostly
Mozart" Festival in New York.

Vaidman, who came to Israel
from the USSR in 1973, is a gradu-
ate of the Moscow Conservatory.

The programme at this concert
will include Stephen Albert's “Rain
Music,” Tchaikovsky's Concerto for
Violin and Orchestra in D major
Op. 35 and Symphony No. 1 in C
minor by Brahms.

THE 15-YEAR-old violinist Drorit
Valk came fourth in the Leopold
Mozart Competition for Young Vio-
linists held in Augsburg, Germany,

Drorit Valk -- fourth in Mozart com-
petition,

earlier this month. She was the only
Israeli competitor and: also the
youngest of the 39 participants --

chosen from among 164 applicants -- -

in a competition designed for violin-
ists hea the ages of 15 and 28.
In addition to a special prize of

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DM2,000, she was given an excel-
Jent new violin by a teacher in the
audience who was particularly im-
pressed with her playing.

Drorit's father and 27-year-old
brother are both violinists in the Is-
rae! Philharmonic; she herself plays
in the Young [srael Philharmonic.

CONTRABASSIST Gary Karr,
who has been in Israel for more than
10 days now, giving master classes
and concerts, is appearing in five
concerts with the Haifa Symphony
Orchestra under its conductor Stan-
ley Sperber.

In addition to the two concerts
already given this week in Carmiel
and Arad, he will appear with the
orchestra tomorrow evening (Nov.
28) at Beit Nagler in Kiryat Haina and
on Sunday and Monday (29 and 30)
at the Haifa Auditorium. He will
play Grieg’s Concerto for Double
’ Bass and Orchestra (originally writ-

ten for cello, piano and orchestra)

and the orchestra will also play
“Prayer” by Tzvi Avni and Haydn's
“Surprise Symphony,

This is the fifth visit to Israel by .

the 41-year-old, seventh-generation
contrabass player, who is consid-
ered the number one double bass in
the world and is known for the spe-
cial sounds he extracts from his
instrument.

“As a kid, [ loved chocolate and I
discovered that the double bass
sounds like chocolate,” he said. “Of
course, it’s an instrument with which
the public is less familiar, and so you
have to break down the resistance.
Humour helps; 1 don’t understand
why musicians always have to be so
serious. If Mozart could laugh at
himself, why can't the rest of us?”

The instrument he uses is an
Amati, which was given to him by
Koussevitzky’s widow. Because it is
so rare and valuable, it always trav-
els first class, even when its owner
travels tourist.

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ALLEGRO NON TROPPO ~ Storics set
to music by Debussy, Dvorak, Ravel,
Sibelius, Stravinsky and Vivaldi are
brought to the screen in a very altractive
animation. [talian production.

THE BEAUTY OF VICE — Peasant cou-
ple from the hills encounter decadence
and corruption in a tourist resort on the
beach. This Yugoslav attempt to deal
with the culture clush is clumsy and
obvious, impossible to take sctiously.
Director Zivko Nikolic won't he remem-
bered for this effort and nor will his cast.

THE BEDROOM WINDOW - Steve
Guttenberg testifics to the mugging of
Elizabeth McGovern, which he has not
seen, to save the honour of the real
witness, his married mistress, Isabelle
Huppert. This leads to a lot of trouble in
an effective but not terribly original thril-
ler directed by Curtis Hanson.

THE BEEKEEPER - A poctic descrip-
tion of mid-life crisis. A beekeeper Icaves
with his hives on his last annual trip
following the blossoming of the spring
flowers. His solitude grows more ex-
{reme with every step he takes. Leading
Greek director Theo Anghelopaulos had

* Marcello Mastroianni play the part in

Greck.

BEING THERE -- A comic fable about
the influence of television in our lives and
of how Chance the gardener (Peter Scl-
lers), who is really quite a simpleton,
becomes a man of great influence be-
cause he looks like someone who should
be listened to.

BLACK WIDOW -- A Fedcral agent
leaves her computer to chase a suspected
predatory female, who has been killing

husbands and inheriting their for-
tunes. Debra Winger and Theresa Rus-
sel are effective in an unusuat thriller,
which tells you everything about the
action, but precious little about emo-
tions. Bob Rafelson directed.

CASABLANCA ~ Humphrey Bogart as
Rick the most famous τα τυ κὸ in
sereen history. and Ingrid Bergman ns
the love of his life. Doaley Wilson sings
“As Time Goes By" while on interna-
tional parade bad aed Lipahe and out of

‘rapes. Not really a ve mov t
wonderful romantic fon’

CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD - In-
structor of deaf-mutes falls in love with
recalcitrant student. Based on a hu
stage hit with solid performances by
Oscar Winner Marlee Matlin and Wii-
fiam Hurt. Rando Huines’s movie may
not be a maste; ν but it will sure
make you cry and sigh for its herocs.

CHRONICLE OF A LOVE AFFAIR -
Polish director laureate Andrzej Wajda
has stayed away from contemporary poli-
tics this time, and gone back to the eve of
WWII for a youthful Romeo and Juliet
romance, taking place just as (he world
around the two lovers is about to crum-
ble. The story is by Tadeusz Konwicki,
Got well liked by the authorities, but

: ian ete most influential post-war Pol-

CLOCKWORK ORANGE - Stanley
Kubrick's horrific exercise in pure brutal-
ity, ἐς far more than just an exploitation
Of sengationalism. Kubrick follows

the Burgess's novel in discussin;

ν Might to choose between good ani
evil. I you deprive even the most evil of
the this caze the protagonist Alex, of
heaps tight, you do not make him 8
man; you simply 1urn him into a
pate. Malcolm McDowell, in the
, had the kind of role an actor never

lives down,

“pittul comedy of manners, observed
lantly by Jim Jarmusch who focuses

cepa into the Louisiana marshes. A

on the inconsistencies of human nature
und its humorous quirks, and pesformed
to perfection by John Lurie, Tum Waits
and Ruberto Benigni.

THE FAMILY = Ettore Scola offers the
saga of a Rome family covering 1yt until
today, with HLalian history reflected in the
conduct of the clun's members. Some
episodes are predictable, others are de-
leciable. Vittorio Gassmun is great in the
lead, bul ane is allowed to wonder
whether history hasn't been toned down
too much in the process. Stefania San-
drelli, Fanny Ardant and Philippe Noiret
co-star.

FULL METAL. JACKET -Stanicy Kub-
Tick's slup in the face for American
myths, such as heroism, in a film whose
first part shows how human beings are
converted into killing machines, and
whose second part displays the usc of
these less-than-perfect machines in prac-
tice. Hard to take and not easy to swal-
low. Matthew Modine is the only well-
known name in a cast delivering uniform-
ly strong performances.

GINGER AND FRED - Two aging enter-
(ainers, once famous for their Ginger
Rogers-Fred Astaire imitation, are
reunited for a New Year's mammoth
show on Italian TV. Fellini at his fiercest,
caricatures (clevision aud ils commer-
cials, but at the same time cringes in fear
of changing fashions and old age. Giulet-
ta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni are
exquisite as the couple of have-beens.

THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY ~ The
doubtful benefits of modern civilization
seen from the perspective of a pygmy,
mystified by the Coca-Cola he findsin the
middle of nowhere. A South African
comedy by Jamie Uys. If not quite candid
camera, very much in the spirit of it.

GOOD MORNING, BABYLON - Paolo
and Vittorio Taviani graduate into the
epics. Two brothers leave their native
Italy at the turn of the century andend MP
in Hollywood as set designers for D.W.
Griffith's Intolerance. Pleasant, benuti-
fully shot and often moving, but less
inspiring than their previous movics.
Vincent Spano and Greta Scacchi are
among the better-known actors, with
Omero Antonutti and Margarita Loza-
no, the old couple from San Lorenzo, in
small parts,

THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE -
The new animated feature from the Dis-
ney factory is a take-off on the Sherlock
Holmes mysteries, vulgarized for chil-
dren with mice replacing humans. As
usual, the drawings are detailed and
precise, the visuals arc highly profession-
al, but there is very little imagination in
the story. Children won't be Inspired, but
maybe they'll be amused.

HAROLD AND MAUDE - The strange
story of the close friendship, leading to
love, between a bay of 20and 80-ycar-old
woman. Wonderful acting by Ruth Gor-
don and Bud Cort as the odd couple.

HOME OF THE BRAVE- It isn't exactly
a movie and it probably doesn’t do full
justice to what Laurie Anderson achieves
in her stage performances. But it is a
tantalizing and fascinating glimpse at the
potential of this unusual all-round perfor-
mer, as recorded by cameras in several of
her shows. Try it for a change.

JEAN DE FLORETTE -- An obstinate
farmer and his brother-in-law make life
miserable for a hunchbacked tax collec-
tor who wants to return from the city to
his peasant roots. First part of Claude
Berri’s adaptation of Marcel Pagnol’s
novel, remarkably performed by Yves
Montand, Gerard Depardieu and Daniel
Auteuil. The kind of movie to please

everybody.

LADY AND THE TRAMP - One more
are nicer than

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faved from the vil anor plots of ie

ΠΟῪ cat a sympathetic mongrel.

Walt Disney μόνε να for the kids which
may please the parents 85 much as it does
their offspring.

LETHAL WEAPON ~ Both goodies and
baddies in this action-packed police story
are Vielnam veterans. The villains orga-

Peter Sellers in ‘Being There.’

nize drug imports mto the States like a
military operation, the heroes in blue
strike back; and Me! Gibson is given a
chance to get almost as mad as he was in
Mad Max and as dirty as his model, Harry
Calahan, ever was in the Dirty Harry
series. Director Richard Donner doesn't
take it too scriously, and Danny Glover
helps to provide a human dimension.

LIFE OF BRIAN - Monty Python's wild,
irreverent and perfectly zany version of
the Christian gospels, is so far-out it can't
even be considered sacrilegious. Don't
try to make any sense of it, just go along
for the ride.

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS - Canni-
balistic plant grows in the basement of a
Skid Row flower shop. Cute allegorical
musical about the threat of fascism ~ thin
on plot, caricatural in characterization,
amusing at times. Rick Moranis and
Ellen Greene are the unlikely romantic
leads, Director Frank Oz should have
had more muppets around,

A MAN IN LOVE -- American superstar
and European starlet have a brief ro-
mance while shooting an Italian film
about the life and death of writer Cesare
Payese, Picturesque backgrounds help
this picture, which desperately trles to be
more than a cute tear-jerker but rarely
succeeds. Diane Kurys directs, Greta
Scacchi and Peter Coyote play the lovers,
Claudia Cardinale and John Berry get
supporting roles.

MANNER ~ Germany's top 1986 box-
office attraction, about a husband who
moves in with his wife's lover in order to
understand what makes her prefer
another man to him. Director Dorris
Dorrie obviously doesn’t have a very high
opinion of men and thelr intellectual
capacity, and she makes fun of them, but
it isn't quite certain whether what makes
the Germans laugh will tickle the Israclis.

THE NAME OF THE ROSE - The spec-
tacular adaptation of Umberto Eco's
novel follows the 14th century murder
mystery in a Benedictine monastery, but
misses most everything else, Sean Con-
nery is 8 reliable medieval sleuth but F.
Murray Abraham is grotesquely uni-
dimensional as ἃ Grand Inquisitor.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud.

9'4WEEKS - The title indicates the
length of the relationship between a
mactio stockbroker and 2 luscious blonde
working in an ort gallery, The couple
explore the outer limits of sexuat experi-
mentation, with only the cleaner stuff
shown clearly, just what middle-class
morality would consider bearable out-
rageousness. Mickey Rourke looks likea
tough guy lost in 8 tuxedo, and Kim
Basinger jooks better than she acts.
Adrian (Flashdance) Lyne directs a pret-
ty, stylish and totally vacuous movie.

NO WAY OUT -- A remake of The Big
Clock (1948), only more pretentious. A
handsome naval officer with an intelli-
gence background is charged by the
secretary of defence to disclose the
identity of his mistress’s killer, when the
audience knows perfectly well who is

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responsible. First half luoks like soup
oper, secend tigtens the thriller screws.
All characters are cardbourd, though
Kevin Costner and Sean Young sre kave-
ly manonelies, Gene Hachinan can de
belter.

PRICK UP YOUR EARS - British play-
wright Joe Ortun's life and death, his
famboyant hamasexuutity and praletis-
tian spunk, in a highly-entertaining
movie. Brilliantly written by Alan Ben-
nett und directed by Stephen Frears, with
Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina and Vanes-
so Redgrave. You won't earn much
about the man's talent, hut you will find
out a lot about the hectic activities in
London's public lavatories. Sensitive
persons, please abstain.

RITA, SUE AND BOB TOO ~ Another
impudent look at British working-class
girls, with Siobhan Finnegan and Michel-
le Holmes as two lusty lasses who would
make even Tom Jones envious. Alan
Clarke directed from a script by 25-year-
old Andrea Dunbar, based on her own
award-winning play.

RUTHLESS PEOPLE - Abrahams,
Zucker & Zucker, the zany (rio responsi-
ble for Airplane and Top Secret, in an
almost conventional mood, inspired by
O’Henry and Damon Runyon, offer
comedy about a kidnapped rich heiress
who drives everybody mad around her,
including the poor kidnappers. Bette
Midler and Danny de Vito gesticulaote
thelr way through.

SHASLUL (Snall) -- The rather confused
story of an Israeli pop star has become a
cult item, thanks (o the presence in one
film of Uri Zohar, Arik Einstein, Pupik
Arnon and Zwi Shissel, at a time when
they were still a gang undivided by their
religious opinions. Boaz Davidson
directed this picture and Nurit Aviv
signed her first camera assignment before
ahe left for a brighter career in Paris.

SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT — Youthful
romp by black director Spike Lee, still in
his 20s and already a sensation after his
sccond film. A pretty girl with a mind of
her own entertains three lovers, each
destined to fulfil different needs and each
knowing of the others’ existence. Shoot-
ing in black and white, with only black
actors, and using frenetic montage, unex-
pected angles, Lec is still very much the
student fooling around with the tools of
his profession. But at least he does it
amusingly. Made for peanuts, the fitm
has already brought in a fortune.

SHOP AROUND THE CORNER -
Hungarian, play beautifully adapted to
the screen by the one and only Ernst
Lubitsch. A chief clerk in a store falls in
love with a brash new salesgirl when he
discovers she is his mysterious pen pal.
James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan and a
magnificent Felix Bressart play in this
little gem made in 1940.

STRANGER THAN PARADISE ~ A
black-and-white, absolutely off-of-the-
beaten-track comedy. A Hungarian girl
visits her refatives in America, and is
stranded with a distant cousin who finds
her un-cool because she disrupts his
routine. Soon, he Sikes her enough to
travel to Cleveland with a friend to visit
her and take her to Florida. This road

Fri. 14:00 Passage To India, Dir:
David Lean; 22:00 Merry Christmas
Mr. Lawrence, Dir: Nagisha Oshi-
ma.

Sat. 17:30 My Bodyguard, Dir: Tony
Bill; 19:30 Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Dir:
Penny Marshall; 19:30 The Meadorr,
Dir: Paolo & Vittorio Taviani; 21:30
Revenge Of A Kabuki Actor, Dir:
Kon Ichikawa; 21:30 Mona Lisa, Dir:
Neil Jordan.

Sun. 19:00 Short Is The Summer, Dir:
Bjora Hening-Jensen; 21:30 A Selec-
don Of Salllag Filros From Yeatlval
La Rochelle} 21:30 Subway, Dir: Luc
Besson,

Mon. 19:00 Melo, Dir: Alain Resnais;
21:30 A Blande In Love, Die: Milos
Forman.

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Inovie uses an original technique in which
each scene consists uf only one shat,
observing characters from a fied point
und allowing the spectator fo pereeive the
huunuut of it situation instearl of furcing it
anhim.

TENUE DE SOJREE - Antoine loves
Monique who fancies Bob, who adores
Antuine. Bizarre amorous triangle, with
sume unusually frank sexual scenes and a
brilliantly satiric first half hour. Michel
Blanc steals the show, in spite of strong
performances by Gerard Depardieu and
Miou Miou. Director: Bertrand Blier.

THE UNTOUCHABLES - A hit TV
series in the late '5Us, now a hit movie of
the 'kOs, Treasury agent, Elliot Ness, sent
ta Chicugo to catch Al Capone drafts his
own army when he finds all the cups arc
on the gangster’s payroll, and eventually
gets him put away for tax evasion. Brian
de Palina combines action and gore with
humour and social criticism. The script is
preity thin tut brains are blown carefully
in close-up. Kevin Costner in the Icad is
nice but light-weight next to Scan Con-
nery and Robert de Niro, who ore sup-
Posed 10 co-star but ster! the show, nol by
doing anything special, just by being
there,

THE WHISTLE BLOWER -- The old
paranoia of secret services 45 ἃ monstrous
entity devouring its own children is cer-
tainly justified, bul could have been more
excitingly presented than in this limp
thriller improvised around a scandal that
rocked British Intelligence a few years
ago. Michacl Caine is the father of a
researcher who mysteriously falls off his
own rool, and he rusiles up a whole nest
of vipers when he starts looking for the
reasons. Venerable actors such as Sir
John Giclgud, James Fox and Barry
Faster walk through as well, but director
Simon Langton hasn't yel made a satis-
factory transition from TV to movie fare.

WHOOPING COUGH - The failed 1956
Hungarlan uprising scen through the
eyes of a 10-year-old boy. Sensitive and
humorous, yet perceptive and intelligent.
Peter Gardos's film suffers from an uo-
even script and disjointed montage, but is
Still quite enjoyable and very well played.

WISH YOU WERE HERE - Personal
Services gave us Cynthia Payne's exploits
aan adit Hercis her adolescence, cven
more likely and impertitent, as she leaves
her home, scandalizes her parents and
assumes her responsibilities at the ripe
old nge of 16. Emily Lloyd is niagnificent-
ly rowdy and rude in the lead, and David
Leland, who wrote Personal Services,
directs his own script.

THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK -
Three ripe suburban beauties, alone and
sick of small-town mentality, pool their
supernatural powers and bring ta life the
ideal male of their fantasics. But when he
becomes too ideal, they get scared, and
send him packing. A misogynic affair
played with posto by Jack Nicholson
rsonifying the dirty dreams of Cher,
usan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer.
George Miller directed the story adapted
from John Updike’s best-seller.

Some of the films listed are restricted to
adult audiences. Please check with the
cinema.

auc. 16:00 Pete's Dragon, Dir: Don
Chaffey; 19:00 Passion D'Amore,
Dir: Ettore Scola; 19:30 The Scarlet
Letter, Dir: Victor Sjostrom; 21:30
‘Criss Cross, Dir: Robert Siodmak;
21:30 Le Quatrleme Pouvolr, Dir:
Serge Leroy.

Wed. 19:00 The Firemen’s Ball, Dir:
Milos Forman; 19:00 The Dybbok,
Dir: Michael Waczinsk|; 21:15 Toul,
Dir: Jean Renoir; 21:30 Shin elke
Monogatary, Dir: Kenji Mizoguchi.

Thu. 19:00 Cobaret, Dir: Bob Fosse;

Dorn But... Dir: Yasu-
30 Tehpo Pantin, Dir:
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Fri, 14:00 The Deer Hunter, Dir:
Michael Cimino; 22:00 Apocalypse
Now, Dir: Francis Pord Coppola.

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